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For their Ultra-Lightweight class (50 cc) Grand Prix race bikes during the 1964, 1965 and 1966 race seasons, Honda re-introduced the 1920s format of cable-actuated caliper rim brakes with shoes/blocks directly acting on the aluminium rim-sides (alloy wheel rim), creating almost a 'consumable' item from the wheels, but dispensing with heavy ...
Honda RC116 display at Honda Collection Hall in Motegi Honda RC142 display at the 2013 Tokyo Motor Show Honda RC160 display at the 2009 Tokyo Motor Show. The large majority of works racing motorcycles manufactured by the motorcycle racing division of Honda of Japan, currently called Honda Racing Corporation (HRC, previously called the Racing Service Center), carry the iconic prefix RC.
The Honda RC174 was a racing motorcycle built by Honda for the 350 cc class of Grand Prix motorcycle racing in the 1967 season. Based on the 250 cc class Honda RC166, it had less than 300 cc, yet won seven out of the eight races in the championship that year. Mike Hailwood won the world championship and Honda won the constructors title.
The Honda RC181 was a road racing motorcycle built by Honda which raced in the 500cc class of Grand Prix motorcycle racing in the 1966 and 1967 seasons. The bike debuted in 1966 and won five out of nine races that season, three with Mike Hailwood and two with Jim Redman .
After the withdrawal of Honda (and Bridgestone) after the 1966 season, Suzuki was the only Japanese firm entered in the 1967 50 cc category, winning each and every GP, often with a one-lap advantage on its closest competitors. At the end of 1967, cost-saving technological restrictions were introduced by the FIM, to be applied as from 1969.
Before all those Civics and Accords and CR-Vs, there was the S600 roadster.
The Honda CL series refers to a line of dual-sport motorcycles produced by Honda from the mid-1960s. Often marketed as "scramblers", [ 1 ] notable features of the CL-series include high-mount upswept exhausts , rubber fork covers, and taller fenders .
Honda Motor Co., Ltd. [3], commonly known as just Honda, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate automotive manufacturer headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in October 1946 by Soichiro Honda, Honda has been the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer since 1959, [4] [5] reaching a production of 400 million by 19 December 2019. [6]