1961 CB72 Project

sixtiescycle · Post by **sixtiescycle** » Sat May 16, 2015 8:34 am

Ray has "Dream 250" in stock again? I gave up on him last summer!

Nice to have Christmas at anytime of year isn't it? I felt the same way with all the NOS parts that came with the last CB77 I bought ; )

You sure wouldn't of thought Honda would have went to the trouble to produce that case, makes me wonder if you ordered a lower back in the day if they would have the primary chain tensioner mount.

G-Man · Post by **G-Man** » Sat May 16, 2015 9:03 am

Dick

It's been a long time for those badges, but I now have two new sets and they look pretty good.

The interesting thing about that upper case is that they have drilled two oil holes for the right hand bearing into the one gallery. It's surprising that they didn't continue that or tell people when fitting ball races to later engnes that they should modify the oil feed to suit.

G

sixtiescycle wrote:Ray has "Dream 250" in stock again? I gave up on him last summer!

Nice to have Christmas at anytime of year isn't it? I felt the same way with all the NOS parts that came with the last CB77 I bought ; )

You sure wouldn't of thought Honda would have went to the trouble to produce that case, makes me wonder if you ordered a lower back in the day if they would have the primary chain tensioner mount.

Steverino · Post by **Steverino** » Sat May 16, 2015 10:30 am

You going to do some strategic grinding on that pretty new pump G Man?
Steve

G-Man · Post by **G-Man** » Sat May 16, 2015 10:32 am

Steve

It might just go into a glass case as "The Golden Pump"... It's too nice to mess with.

G

G-Man · Post by **G-Man** » Sat May 16, 2015 3:05 pm

Tim pointed out that my NOS top case is sand-cast. I was too busy with all the other details to notice that. I wonder how many of these got made and why? It must have involved quite a lot of effort.

G

Tim Miller · Post by **Tim Miller** » Sat May 16, 2015 3:46 pm

I asked Ray about this batch of dream 250 badges and he pulled them off eBay. He was unhappy with the quality. I donated the first original 250 dream badge to him in hopes of accurate reproductions, but I guess they were better than nothing. Hopefully someday he can find someone more talented.

Tim

G-Man · Post by **G-Man** » Sat May 16, 2015 4:43 pm

Tim

I'm OK with the ones I got. The text at the bottom was a little thin but, as you say, better than not having any, and so much nicer than those dreadful replacements that Honda made.

Still looking for someone to swap me a left for one of my two original rights......

G