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Honda at Home in Japan Volume 26, Number 8 April 2004 $3.50 Hodaka Revival Buying Vintage Tires Biking in Hawaii Honda at Home in Japan Celebrating over 25 years of vintage motorcycling VINTAGE JAPANESE MOTORCYCLE CLUB MAGAZINE APRIL 2004 CONTENTS President’s Column..........3 This issue’s web password is: showers Editor’s Column ...........3 Effective April 25th Use lower case VJMC Chapter Membership Benefits .........6 Mission Statement Calendar of Events ..........7 The Purpose of this organization is to promote the preservation, restoration and enjoyment of Vintage Japanese A Ride to Remember: motorcycles (defined as those greater Coast to Coast on a CB77 than 15 years old) and to promote the .......8 sport of motorcycling and camaraderie of motorcyclists everywhere. Tire and Size and RatingInfoDecoded.........9 President Pete Boody Tech Tip: Balancing (865) 435-2112, [email protected] Carbs with TWINMAX ........12 Magazine Editor Karen McElhaney (865) 671-2628, [email protected] Barber Museum Keeps Classified Advertising Bike History Alive .........14 Gary Gadd (817) 284-8195, [email protected] Commercial Advertising Region A Honda History: Norman Smith At Home In Japan ..........18 (941) 792-0003, [email protected] Commercial Advertising Region B Brad Powell Big Horn Reborn ..........22 (678) 576-4258, [email protected] Membership Bill Granade Vintage Japanese (813) 961-3737, [email protected] Webmaster Bikes in Hawaii ...........25 Jason Bell (972) 245-0634, [email protected] The Hodaka Motorcycle Revival . 26 Cover Layout Andre Okazaki Magazine Layout International Motorcycle Darin Watson SuperShow Report .........28 © 2004 Vintage Japanese Motorcycle Club. All rights reserved. No part of this document may be reproduced or transmit- Classifieds ..............31 ted in any form without permission. 2 www.vjmc.org VINTAGE JAPANESE MOTORCYCLE CLUB MAGAZINE APRIL 2004 From the President: Membership goal set by Pete Boody meal. It can also be anything that on the Rally mascot “Homer,” and helps to promote VJMC, such as a then click on the registration logo. This year we have many great gathering at your house for “spring Simply print the pages, fill out the events to look forward to and partici- tune-up day.” Simple, easy and fun, form, and send it to the registration pate in. Many of the Field Represen- without rules or hard work, you can chairperson along with $45.00 for tatives are also planning some super enjoy gatherings such as these and each person who plans to attend. This events in their areas. Each and every continue the spirit of the VJMC. yearly event is the only National Rally one should be a worthy thing for us to The VJMC National Rally will be for VJMC that is ours and not shared. do and to also enjoy. It makes sense held September 7 – 11, 2004, and for If you can attend, please make your then for all of you to contact the the second time it will be held in Oak plans early and come to Tennessee, hard-working Field Representative in Ridge, Tennessee. This year we will where the riding is always great and your area to find out what may be go- start a little earlier so that our Tennes- all of the folks are friendly. ing on. It is very difficult for anyone see friends can join in on the first day We are underway with a member- here on the Board of Directors to for the fun and campfire. In 2003, we ship drive and soon we will be putt- know every Rep’s planning and if enjoyed rides, field events, a swap ing on another one. Our goal is to you find that he/she does not yet have meet, bike show, and a good old fash- have 2004 members by the end of the a plan for a ride, a social gathering or ion Pig Roast and Bluegrass Hoedown year. What this means to us is that we local rally, why not suggest to your on the Lake. This year will be even can continue our efforts to bring you Rep that you would be interested in better, as we will have the Pig events like the National Rally and getting one going. All of our Repre- Roast/Hoedown on the Lake at a loca- hopefully offer additional regional sentatives are folks like yourself, tion that is closer than last year, a more events that are close to you. What you who have 8:00 am – 5:00 pm jobs and sophisticated bike show, campfires, can do to help is this: if your member- would be most appreciative if you seminars, a repair tent, and a time for ship is due, renew it. By your contin- wanted to plan an event. It does not “storytelling.” If you haven’t regis- ued participation, we will attain the need to be anything more than just tered for the special Hoedown and 2004 and a lot more. It shouldn’t be getting together with fellow VJMC Awards breakfast events yet, all you so tough to do, and with your help we riders to go to a local restaurant for a need do is go to www.vjmc.org, click will do it! From the Editor: A spring fever issue by Karen McElhaney would/are you considering bringing everything in this issue. In it, we have children with you? If the Rally had part 2 of Mike Baker’s essay on the Local Rides activities for children, would this in- Barber Motorsports Museum, Bill crease your interest in attending? Silver tells us what it’s like to ride on Jack Delaney suggests that VJMC Would you be interested in meeting the often unpredictable Hawaiian ter- members who are traveling across the the Saturday before the Rally to ride rain, and Ellis Holman offers a tech country would benefit from having through the Smoky Mountains (or tip on balancing carburetors in other members send suggestions for other scenic area) prior to arriving in twin-cylinder bikes. Greg Bastek, good local rides and places to see. For Oak Ridge on Tuesday/Wednesday? who is currently writing a book on those members who would like to Contact Scott Timoff at the subject, gives us a history lesson contribute suggestions, send them to [email protected] or Pete on Hodaka motorcycles. Rick Darke us for inclusion on the web site and in Boody at [email protected] shares impressions from his recent the magazine. your input. trip to the Honda Collection Hall in Tochigi, Japan, where the world’s National Rally In this Issue most extensive collection of Honda production and racing motorcycles are on display. The April cover de- By April, most of us will be chomp- The organizers of the 2004 National picts three of the museum’s early ing at the bit to get out and ride. Tem- Rally would like your input regarding Dream models: (left to right) 1951 this year’s event: per your enthusiasm for a few Since the National Rally is the week minutes, though, because you’ll want following the Labor Day weekend, to spend enough time indoors to read See Editor, page 4 www.vjmc.org 3 VINTAGE JAPANESE MOTORCYCLE CLUB MAGAZINE APRIL 2004 Editor: February cover bike attracts interest Continued from page 3 Dream E, 1954 Dream 4E, and a 1955 Dream SA. Everything you al- ways wanted to know about buying tires for your vintage velocipedes can be found in Mike Baker’s compre- hensive treatise on the Great Rubber Search. Sean Quinn shares the fun from this year’s International Motor- cycle SuperShow in Toronto, Mike Vachon provides an amusing restora- tion tale, and Floyd Ratliff, our new VJMC Chapter Coordinator, explains how to start your own local chapter and why you should do it. Whew! That’s a lot of stuff! I hope you enjoy it. Members’ Bikes Dale and Don Eccles, Hodaka deal- ers from 1972 until the company A 1972 Hodaka 100B restored by Don and Dale Eccles. went out of business, have rebuilt arrive on U.S. shores in early 1966 those unheard-of torsion-bar valve several bikes over the past couple of and were quickly nicknamed the closures and constant velocity car- years. Shown here is a Hodaka Ace “Black Bomber.” But despite their buretors mounted in a single that they originally sold new in 1973. revolutionary engine and frame de- downtube split-wishbone frame It was traded in, sold again, and after signs, the CB450 fell far short of was the buzz. a number of years, was bought back Honda’s sale expectations. Engineering students dismantled by Dale and Don. The brothers kept In a further effort to promote their the bike and engine, studied its con- everything they had left from the 43-hp power plants, Honda pro- tents, and reassembled it once again. dealership except the bikes and duced the CB450 Police Special. After an undetermined number of would be glad to help anyone who is Honda sent an initial shipment of years at the university, the bike be- restoring a Hodaka. 25 of these bikes to major metro- came privately owned for a period of politan area dealers with an expec- about five years when an overseas February Issue Cover tation that police departments collector of police motorcycles Photo: 1967 Honda CB450 would be dazzled by their perfor- learned of the bike and purchased it. K0 Police Special mance and reliability. Boy! Were In 2002, after some 25 years, it be- they ever wrong! The PDs wanted came available once again and Scott Scott Timoff writes that he has re- nothing to do with these Japanese had it shipped back from ceived several inquiries about the bikes as they predominately sup- across-the-pond, as our European bike featured on the February mag- ported the “American Iron” friends call it.
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