Sweet sounding Honda Six

[8541Hawk]

Don't forget to check out the videos... or page 2.....

http://www.petrolicious.com/honda-rc166

[agentpineapple]

that sounds frickin awesome........

heres a few tasty sounding and looking cbx1000's





then theres just plain crazy

now this is getting silly

[Kev L]

Classic Bike had the little RC at the Excel show this year. Frightened the hell out of my little six month old Grandaughter. What a noise. Amazing bit of kit.

[benny hedges]

my old boss from my honda days used to ride one of these alongside the great mike hailwood

tommy robb -


he used to have one of the sixes hung on the wall in the shop - when he finished racing for honda they set him up with a dealership

very impressive career tbh - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Robb and was a cracking guy to work with

seen here with the 6 at goodwood (the little grey haired gent)
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and racing (beating!) mike hailwood at silverstone
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[8541Hawk]

Some interesting trivia about the little 6 and its 4 cylinder 125CC brother. The metallurgy used to build these motors some 50 years ago back in Japan has disappeared off the planet entirely. Honda was also building Formula 1 automotive engines at the time and the two sides of the engineering departments were a bit too secretive and made a habit of destroying data and technical papers at the close of every design.

The tiny engines experienced lean out conditions that torched piston crowns at WFO extended runs, the reason behind this was due to the lack of atmospheric "weight" to put enough air inside the intake tracts, thus reaching the mean maximum velocity that atmosphere can travel as measured in feet per second. They created alloys that could withstand this leaning out condition and the little engines survived and won races all over the world. However today the people that have recreated these engines and the caregivers of the original versions can not push them to the staggering hyper RPM's realized 50 years ago. They don't have the ability to produce the pistons and the original parts are not revealing their secrets under clinical forensic analogy.

I think it was captured Alien technology, this all took place just a few years after Roswell right?

[darkember]

Still a beautiful piece of engineering history