I rode my 1970 CB450 from Florida to California to Iowa in summer of 2020. absolute unit of a bike. I'm almost 300lbs, and I had 80 lbs of gear with me. three oil changes, two chains, and one rear tire later... I didn't even have an electric starter until I went through Oregon on the return trip. I rolled into Cedar rapids Iowa to meet my father for the first time, on one cylinder, leaking oil from the clutch push rod boot like it was non existent, a blown head gasket and various other things. I tore down that motor last month expecting to find it had grenaded itself. nope. re-leveled the heads and found out that it didn't even need piston rings. everything was as beautiful as if it had just come from the factory. keep in mind, I would sometimes put a dubious mix of light and heavy oil in it when I couldn't find the right stuff. thing will do 70 on the freeway with absolutely no compression on one cylinder. I will always love this bike. when Honda built these, they built them to last.

1972 i owned a K 1 with 45 hp. Years later a 5 with discbrake. 1994 a CB 500 II with 42 hp. It was hardly to find Spareparts and so i gave up. I really liked this CB 450. Today i drive a MOTO GUZZI CALIFORNIA III, a really decent Bike.

This bike was my introduction to motorcycling back in the 70s.. btw the test rider has a good riding style.

I had a CB450...best 'big' smaller bike I ever had...very dependable, excellent ride, 'big bike' feel...wow, that was almost 40-years ago, too! It was such an excellent commuter bike...great fuel mileage! I sure miss the 'simple' design bikes had from the 70's...simple speedometer, big, comfy seat, available luggage rack...I just don't need all the 'bells and whistles' of today!!!

Got a 1974 CL450 scrambler not even six feet away from me. Battery on charge, ready to go when the spring arrives.

My CB450 took me through almost every state and province in North America, never once experiencing any sort of mechanical issue. Much of that was traveling with friends who rode a BMW 750 boxer and H-D panhead. Where they could go, I could go. I took on some fire roads and paths through Appalachia which confounded them. My Honda carried me and all my camping gear with ease. It was traded in only when I took a wife and needed a larger bike. I wish I still had my 450.

Memory Lane...AAMRR & AMA membership got me on the road racing track one summer on a 250 (almost) CB, all decked out with a fairing, clip-on bars and megaphone exhaust. A true DIY, with help from friends, Jay’s garage, and a magnificent road crew, to have put up with me! Four races, completed one, made a few laps at Mosport (Holy Grail to me). Even got a rider sponsor proposal from a pro with bikes and deeper pockets than mine....declined the offer, with some regret, but other life paths opened up, so whatever. Such a beautiful machine to ride, just as two strokes were coming up strong. A pleasure to work on professionally, Honda still remains my choice for hero worship. And the CB 160 with its double-leading brake shoes!!!!!. So amazing, made for any rider to cream over. Oh yes! I actually rode a very early 750 up Mass Ave! Scary fast, that was. Strongly recommended for a project resurrection, boys and girls....lay down some Hardee Board on that living room floor or kitchen floor and dig in, you still have plenty of time to ride one come Spring! A big thank you to the CB Series folks who put this gem vid together! How about a Honda Dream Series??

I had a 1972 CB450 and put about 20,000 trouble free miles on it. Yea, it needed frequent Castrol GTX oil changes and the plugs needed cleaning often, but oh that sound at 9500 rpm! A clean looking, fun,and trouble free real motorcycle

Ohhh I remember when the first CB450 came to my city in Norway around 1969....it was SO impressive!! The price in those days was 1000 us Dollars! lol!

I miss so much my CB N 400 Super Dream, my first bike 30 yrs ago. Rode it for 6 yrs and ~ 200K KM without ever visiting the mechanic , all fluid and filter changes and valve adjustments by myself and friends, never let me down! Simply amazing machines!

How could any motorcyclist give the black bomber a thumbs down, wise up and stop hating, it’s a motorcycle after all, and a world beater at the time.

Just wonderful - the glory days of motorbikes

The Black Bomber. Love it! It's my favourite bike.

I had a 1967 just like this one, with twin leading shoe drum front brake before discs arrived. Changed the rear shocks for Girlings which improved the ride. But I had a disaster when the oil system failed temporarily and split one piston. Managed to ride it home by topping up the oil. It was hard to get a new piston as there were not so many around. Somehow did all the work myself. Loved the torsion bar valve springs as all you needed to release and tension them was a Mole wrench! In those days one of the problems with Japanese bikes was that the engine was held together with what I now realise were JIS screws. In the UK you could buy a full set of Allen screws to replace them. I gave motorcycling up after my second accident (neither my fault).

Honda make the best bikes i love all honda bikes i have loads myself they can be sat for 40 years and still get them working i love honda and i will until the day i die.

I thought this must be the ultimate bike the night I paid about $400 for a virtually new one and jumped on it in the fog with my buddy on the back and headed down the 405 to San Diego! How could you want anything more?

私がホンダ車で初めて乗ったツインカムです👍

We had a 68 scrambler. I was 14 years old. I rode it through high school. That engine would smooth out above 7000 rpm. I used to run it through the gears to redline. Great memories. I still have the owners manual and a chilton shop manual.

Had one in New Zealand, also about 1971-2, slightly different than the one shown... twin instruments, rev counter separate from the speedo.. great machine, brilliant engineering. No real comparison with Brit bikes of the same era.Traded in on a CB 750-4 K2.

Had one of these in Australia in 1971..Great bike.

Wonderful video, such great memories. Great bike! I had a 1969 CB450. Ribbed front tire and California freeway rain grooves were a scary combination. Talk about "dancing queen". I'm not sure either exists today.

When I was 16 I bought a 1974 CB450

luv the way he pushed off with his left foot to help the acceleration..

I got to ride one when I was 12. It was the first big bike I had ever been on and a real rocket ship compared to my 100cc trail bike.

あんな重い車体をスイっと方向転換できるのがかっこいい！プロはすごい！

I love honda bikes and unbeatable engine with my heart. This bike is wonder and super classy and catch my heart with retro looking and lot of crom work. Why honda not lanch this type of classy in india.

Hello from Belgium 🇧🇪 : 1973..;my first bike : HONDA CB350FOUR ✌️🏍😍

In 68 I used to have the same in red , but 125cc that was destroyed in an accident , just a dream to find one ...

nice video, short and sweet

Damn, this 50 years bike more agile & strong than my benelli 2020. Damn!

Please bring back this bike to life for India as a BS6 and with ABS.

I've ridden them all, and the DOHC 450 was THE FIRST serious performance motorcycle produced by Honda. Those prior were "OK" commuters, but dogs. Then in 1974 I bought a new CB-550. Right off the bat my racing mechanic warned me to never challenge a DOHC 450; It will mop the floor with you. We have a CL-450 with about 10000 miles. Always impressed with it's spunky zip!!

What a beauty!!!

Had a CB450, used but nice tech but my god it was a paint shaker on 2 wheels. Sold it and bought a old Suzuki T350, only a few years old at the time and it was much more comfortable and powerful. Maybe someday I will find a old T500 before I die, a buddy that passed away several months ago had one while I did my 22 years active and I loved to borrow it when I came home on leave, unfortunately he sold it before telling me he was getting rid of it. I hope he is riding one in the next plane.

Great bike =)

I would love one now a great bike

Perhaps you can tell, the bike in this video is a Japanese market version. It differed from the export market ones in having a 360 degree crankshaft whereas the export ones had the 180 degree crank. I loved the CB450s in the day as a mechanic and service manager at a new Honda dealership in '64. The revs seemed like they would go on forever and the bike was uncommonly smooth compared to other vertical twins.

Ihave 1968 dream305 and did not know of 450 Honda Dream till today! I thought they were Honda CB450!

excellent little video!

Amazing ! I hope the Engineoil was warm before Starting this way 👍

I love it

Old motorcycle will not getting old

I almost bought a used CB450 in 1971, but then the dealer raised the price on me so I bought a Harley-Davidson Panhead instead. Needless to say, that changed the course of my life.

I worked on one ☝️ in the 1970s which had a 360 degree crankshaft. Both pistons went up and down together and was fired by one set of points to a twin lead ignition coil like a British parallel twin. This was the only time I encountered such an arrangement which is a mystery to me as subsequent machines I worked on had a 180 degree crankshaft fired with two sets of points with separate coils. I fathomed that this must have been a very early machine? Has anyone out there also encountered this? I do remember that it was a very smooth ride.

Character In the video It's great, I like it a lot $$

Its hard to beat a Honda, I've had a few over the years.

The motorcycle of my dreams.

I had a black bomber wish i kept it... They are quite nippy for their time with good usable Torque

CB 400 80 Brasileira a mais bela motocicleta do mundo.

ทุกคันที่เราเห็นซื้อ!

Interesting fact,these have torsion bar valve springs. Midsize Japanese bikes are the best.

憧れの存在感とサウンド。

I would love to see CA77 Dream 305.

wow! like to have one

Hermosa !!!!!

Seems like yesterday that I was reading about the introduction of the Black Bomber Honda in Motorcycle Mechanics magasine, They loved it but were worried about the price lol.

When you start a CB450 from cold or even luke warm allow 45 seconds for the oil to reach the top end. I hope in this video the engine was already hot or he did damage by zooming off immediately. My '67 450 handled badly, my 1968 handles as well as an English bike (excellent), my 1972 handles well but more vibration than the 1968 (harder hand grips and no more rubber h'bar mounts). My 1976 CB500 is nice all around bike but understeers compared to the 450's.

If memory serves, one of the British manufacturers said said of it. "An interesting bag of tricks". I think this was a left jab by Honda and the right cross came in 1969 with the CB 750 Four. MY opinion only.

👍👌💓💪

dream!

今のHONDAは、この頃のスピリットを持ち合わせていない様に感じるのは私だけでしょうか？

フロントフォークかっこよ❤️

Is there an episode about the 350F?

Light Years ahead of British twins !

way better than any brit 500 twin at the time.

This bike has turn signals on it. The US parts list for this bike does not show part numbers for the signal light, handlebar switch, or relay. Does anyone have any information on this? This bike seems to match the CB450 on the cover of CycleWorld in 1965

This is not a Dream, this is a Black Bomber!

👍🏻 👍🏻

this is my bike 😍honda cb 100

Yeah, i always wondered why my CB 750 only hade five gears when the rest of my bikes have six gears.

I remember when that was the largest bike Honda made. I used to hear about their terrible vibration that would make you want to "get off the bike and scratch yourself all over" after about an hour in the saddle.

I trust Honda brand

the front shock of this bike is that an upside down or a shock cover? what does it called

Could do with some Girling rear shocks by the look of it . . . .

Do they call all of the toaster tank bikes dreaming Japan ? I owned a single carb 300 the frame was stamped steel with stamped steel fenders that curved on the bottom like a german military helmet. Same frame/ fender combination came in 160 cc single carb. We always refered to them as " Dream " all the tube frame bikes were CB or CL

1970年前後の旧車に懲りました。CB72CL72CB450SL250Sツインも良かったけどシングルも良かった。今はXL250Rか再度SL250Sが欲しい

やはりジェットヘルと、ゴーグル🥽が似合います、😄できれば、アライのレ5がいいですね❗️ホスパイクと、クロムウェルでは、駄目でしょレ5に、こだわります．コルクのハーフキャップですね宜しく

4- speed only??

確か白バイ仕様もあったと思う。3億円事件の頃はこれだったような。

Thought a Honda dream was a 305 ?

I bought mine in 1982 for £100 'cos the guy couldn't find a buyer! Sold it 12 years later for £1000. Wish I hadn't.

テストライダーだった田中富夫さん泣いてしまいますよ。

これはType2だね。360度クランク。

I bought a new CB450 5-speed in 1968. Underpowered, ill-handling, buzzy as hell, poor gas mileage (!), and of course the cams galled and flaked early on. It burned oil until I tore it down and honed the cylinders correctly. When I finally took delivery of my new CB750 in 1970, I never looked back. By the way, the 450 got gas mileage in mid-40s, CB750 reliably got 56 mpg.

Mynameislarry l bought 1968 450 Honda they where called the ugly duckling 4 speed in 1970 great bike in 1969 came the heldc at Toronto canadac

These bikes where left to rot by the thousands all around the world and now everyone seems to want one -$ funny

Mr Miyagi,,,,

これで２５０ならと考えるより ６５０で出してほしい どうせ大型ならｗ

Had a 72, it was kinda heavy and kinda a dog. I had a 69 CL 350 I liked much better.

前後ディスクにしてこのまま売ればいいのに

これは、HONDA CB450K0 1967 最終型 クジラ です。1965 初期型ではありません。

カムチェーンを切らないとヘッドが取り外せないと言う、今では考えられない設計。ホンダ的には450ccで、650ccのトライアンフと同じパワーが売りだと思ったらしいが、トライアンフ乗りは低速トルクの無いエンジンなんか求めて無かったんだよな…… マーケティング不足の失敗作。

un vero carro armato indistruttibile e potente