Old CB77 Racer Help Needed

[Fishcop]

Hello

You certainly have a nice bike there, any of the racers / modifiers will know how much work has went into it from the pictures. One thing I wondered if you have checked how many gears it has ?
possibly you have a 5 speeder in there. Looking at the reversed shift reminded me that the Nova 5 speeders (except the very early ones ) are made so the reversed lever makes a std. shift pattern.
I hope this makes sense and you enjoy the bike.

Gordon

SAFOJ

Hi Gordon

You know I hadn't even thought to check (and I'm glad the GP shift pattern has been identified as I would no doubt confused myself!). So that's 1 up and 4/5 down, correct?

Jerry, thanks for helping identify the front hub - does this make it ineligible for certain classes?

Cheers
John

[jerry]

John, from what I can see yor bike is eligible for P3 Historic Racing. This class is Pre 1963. Should you have concerns just Ph me on 08 85692866 work. Jerry

[teazer]

I would say that looking at the bikes at PI last month , there should be no questions about the eligibility of that drum brake.

It's clearly a replica of those used on the CR72 production racers. How close of a replica is it? Looks good to me.

And if Bill had said the same thing to me I would have been happy with that reply.

Jerry, I wish you hadn't mentioned the shift pattern. Now I can't recall which way mine operated. I had the stock box with a linkage and with a reversed lever and now I'm confused. Thanks for reminding me. I'll have to check that.

I was at Broadford last year for a club event and a guy there had a British twin with what was clearly a Suzuki front end. I asked him if that was an issue with the eligibility guys and he said he told them it was off a Matchless or AyJay or something. Quite frankly if it's a drum it's technology of the period. Period. I have no issues with that and never did.

Any drum passes the 10 yard rule as far as I'm concerned.