A piston-ring salesman, a promise made at the Isle of Man, and the motorcycle that made every other motorcycle obsolete.
By Rotarium
A complete marque study of Honda. Traces the company from war-surplus generator engines bolted to bicycles in 1946, through the Super Cub — the most-produced vehicle in history — to 138 Grand Prix victories and 34 world championships by 1967, won with six-cylinder engines revving to 18,000rpm. Covers the CB750 revolution, the V4 camshaft crisis that produced the VFR750F, the RC30 homologation peak, and the FireBlade. Includes live European market data on nine models, an honest ranking that places Honda third on ownability behind BMW and Yamaha, and the fifteen-fold gap between the RC30 and the VFR750F that shares its architecture.