Honda Cb900 Custom motorcycles for sale in Washington

1981 Honda CB 900 Custom

$2,999

Port Orchard, Washington

To that end they even gave the European CB900 an oil cooler as standard equipment'. . Includes: His and Hers Cobin Seat Service Records Available Motorcycles Retro/Classic 8392 PSN . Neither is it a road-sport model though it was directly derived from one of the most sporting motorcycles Honda has ever made for sale to the public. According to our sources at American Honda the 900 wasn't intended for the touring rider yet it definitely has some of a touring bike's attributes. an item not usually necessary in America where the law's admonition to "cool it" tends also to keep oil temperatures low. the CB900 has an interesting lineage. Honda opened the 750's bores from 62 to 64.5 millimeters stretched its stroke (also 62mm) to 69mm and thus increased its displacement to 902 cubic centimeters. the bike got its drive shaft along with many added pounds and a greatly lengthened wheelbase. 1981 Honda CB 900 Custom 1981 Honda CB 900 Custom (CB900C) "Oh do not ask 'What is it ' Let us go and make our visit." T.S. That was not to be. the only thing it clearly is is a marketplace competitor for the Suzuki GS850 and Yamaha XS850; on that basis shall it be judged by us and everyone. . It was initially a bored and stroked version of the 16-valve CB750F made for the European market and introduced there last year. Europe's CB900s are chain driven and Honda wanted a shaft-drive model to slip into the broad product gap between the GL1100 and CX500 shafties. We'll admit that we'd have been well pleased if Honda had decided to fit the European CB900 with DOT lighting EPA carburetion and sent it here without making another change. So to borrow from the beer commercial the Americanized CB900 gives you more and less: more civility less performance. They made the stroker crank's webs thicker lengthened the block and rods upped the intake and exhaust valve diameters by 1.0 and 0.5mm respectively and added five degrees of duration at the cam lobes' opening sides. Eliot Two Owner Bike! Honda's cb900 custom is a bit of an enigma to us and perhaps even to its creators. And despite having officially been designated a "custom " the CB900 isn't quite that either. There were other performance-related changes as well because what Honda wanted (and by all accounts succeeded in making) was a super-sport motorcycle capable of holding its own on Europe's no-speed-limit highways...