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Lady Dr. is a Honda Chopper
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| Dear Mark, First let me tell how much it meant to me when I discovered your site. My Harley was stolen from me in '74 and I only had enough money to buy a used Honda 750 semi-chop. That changed my life because I found a bike that would always get me home! Dependable, quick and what I liked best was the Harley riders hated them. Chopping Jap bikes was popular and parts availability was plentiful. We had it good! I went full chop in '77 and never looked back. The problem was the Honda chopper fell from popularity and I was left in a wasteland of Harley choppers. Wherever I went, I was the only Honda Chop there. Every once and awhile I'd find a Brother on a Honda and we would celebrate our uniqueness. |
Bill "LadyDr."- circa 1978 |
| I went to the SmokeOut II
in 2001 and was the only Honda there. Then I found your site and
I was saved! I found my long lost Brethren. I was home again and it
was good! I went to the WHCM and met the best people I could have asked
for to ride beside me. Life was Good! But the more I went to the site
the more I found that there was a familiar presence on the board that I
couldn't quite put my finger on. Then it came to me in a post on a DOHC
question.
I was hit with the same close mindedness that the Harleys Riders have been giving me for years! Not all, but a few actually have said to find help somewhere else, "This is a SOHC site". And it was like a ton of bricks fell on me. Outcast by my own. Cast back into the wasteland by fellow Honda Chop riders. I guess I expected too much. You know there is only so many SOHC 750s left and the numbers grow smaller every year. We're preserving all we can, but one day it will be done. (HONDACHOPPER ADDS: We do have a single-minded focus at Hondachopper.com- SOHC CB750 choppers. This exclusivity is NOT a judgment about DOHC chops or riders- but is the direction we started with and will continue with. I know Lady Dr. understands this too!) As the parts disappear so will the riders till they won't come anymore. We must open our arms and let all Honda 750 choppers in, SOHC and DOHC. The family must be preserved or we're nothing more than any other elitist bike gang. I have made good friends on the site and the information I have gained crosses bike genres. I will keep coming because where would I go? But I believe the site needs to grow to survive. HondaChoppers Forever, |
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Here
are a couple of pics of my ride. It was built from scratch in '73
using a '69 K0
motor.
It has an RC cam, Mallery/VW distributor, Weber carbs (switched to Mikuni more recently) and Kerker header. The rear wheel is a US Mag from Performance Machine and PM brake. The frame is A.E.E. and the Springer is custom made using stock Honda wheel and disc brake. I did all the construction, molding, painting. Thanks, |
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