1966 Honda CB77E parade bike, 305cc. Registration number not...

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£2,500 - £3,000

1966 Honda CB77E parade bike, 305cc. Registration number not registered NOVA 19E128857. Frame number CB77-1024297. Engine number CB77E-1024297.
With specifications that would have been the exclusive preserve of exotic racing machinery only a few years earlier, the sports roadsters that began to be introduced by Japanese manufacturers in the early 1960s seemed tailor-made for production racing. One of the first to make its mark in this increasingly popular and important branch of motorcycle sport was the Honda CB72, an overhead-camshaft ‘250’. Introduced in 1960, the twin-cylinder CB72 produced 24bhp at 9,000rpm and weighed just 337lbs, an excellent power-to-weight ratio the endowed the supremely well-specified ‘CB’ with a level of performance challenging that of many British 500s. More powerful yet scarcely any heavier, its close relative - the 305cc CB77 - was the first Honda to make an impact in the middleweight class. Essentially an over-bored CB72, the CB77 arrived in Britain in 1963 and like its quarter-litre predecessor was soon making its presence felt on the racetracks.
This example was imported from the USA by Summerbud Ltd as a matching numbers non runner, an ideal base for our vendor who wanted to build a parade bike. He had raced since in mid 1960's on all sorts of machines and surfaces. The machine was stripped and the frame and forks powder coated, the tank was rechromed, the wheels were rebuilt with new alloy rims, stainless spokes, new Avon Roadrider tyres, rebuilt hubs. The original engine was stripped, the bottom end and gearbox were like new and the top end received new Westwood liners and IMD pistons, a new clutch was fitted. No ignition is fitted at present (Electrex World Race Ignition was going to be fitted).
At present there is no oil in the bike and no electrical system.
It comes with most of the original road going parts, generator, starter motor, rectifier coils and points as well other small parts and RHS engine cover with kick start and mechanism.
Sold with NOVA certificate, workshop and parts manuals, and receipts to the tune of approximately £2,200.