The Forgotten Motorcycle that made Honda

I first rode a Honda Dream back in 1975. It was a great bike, smooth, and powerful. My beautiful older female neighbor wanted me to take her for a ride around Cincinnati. The longer we rode, the more she pressed her chest in my back, and the more I realized how much I loved riding motorcycles. Lol.

This is one of the best motorcycle channels ever on YouTube. I love your work, man!

If Honda could hear us, let us announce it loud and proud. “Revive the dream!”

I loved the look of the Scramblers back in the 60's.

I like the looks of the dream. As a kid I had a C50 to ride to school. A friend had one too. The rest of the school had 2 stroke Kreidlers Zundapp ,Yamaha FS1 and some the new Honda MB-50 or MT-50. But I loved my C50. It had no first gear, no kickstarter but it always ran in summer or winter, ran 70 km/h and used very few fuel. I used it to go skiing in winter (We rode from the Netherlands to Luxemburg in freezing weather. Ski's strapped left and right and bags with campinggear. It was cold (-20 degrees) but our Hondas carried us without any problems. My first motorcycle was also a Honda (CB550K3) and 40 years later I drive a Honda GL1800 as main transport.

Hey, you got it all wrong on the double overhead cam the first double overhead cam Honda was the Honda 450. I know I had a couple of super hawks and took them all apart. Put them all back together and race them out with cams porting and board them to 350. Sent the cam off to LA to to make a racing cam. Put a racing Barnett clutch in with super strong springs. Also, Xed the gears which made the step-by-step even steps From 1st to 4th like a race bike. I took the horsepower from about 29 to 40. I was 15 years old in 1965 when I did all of this. I was breaking chains and beating motorcycles much bigger than mine. This was my first motorcycle and I loved it. The Takeaway here is it is a single overhead cam. Everything else in your video is right on. Thank you for publishing this it was very nostalgic for me I now own six motorcycles 650 Suzuki‘s a Honda Goldwing 1800 cc a 1200 GS BMW and Husqvarna Svartpilen 401 Motorcycling brings sparks to my life, and I recommend it to everyone. If I could find a restored Honda 305 for a reasonable price I would buy it in a heartbeat

I love those vintage showroom bikes - beautifully preserved.

My old man was a merchant seamen. He went to Japan often in the late 1950's early 60's I remember he brought back a 250 dream for a friend. He would do donuts out in front of the house... Good times!!

My dream bike as a young teenager was a Harley Sportster. Then the financial reality hit and I set my sights on a Honda 305 Hawk. I never wound up owning either. Instead in 1974 I bought my first new bike, a Honda 750.

Thanks for this one.. My dad was a Honda fan early on. He owned at least one Dream model in the 60s as well as a CB350 in 1970. I can still remember riding with him on those bikes. Another great aspect of Honda was their development of smaller sized bikes. Thanks to them I got my start riding aboard a ‘69 Z50 Mini Trail and then a ‘73 XR75 before moving on to full-sized bikes. As someone who always did all of his own wrenching, I believe what attracted my dad to Honda motorcycles in particular was the quality of those bikes and the engineering behind them. The quality of their products certainly made a fan of me as well. Now an old man myself, I have owned a variety of motorcycles and cars over my adult life — most of those being Hondas.

My late father owned a `66 CB450 Black Bomber (@13:24) from the early 70`s until his death in 2007. I hadn`t seen it in over 15yrs. The current owner found me on fb. (old registration under seat) I purchased it on July 4th. Literally 2 days ago! It`s got issues but it`s finally mine!😍🤩 Honestly never thought i`d ever see that bike again. Been going out into the garage every few hours just to make sure i`m not dreaming.

I had a 1966 305 Dream from 1970 thru 1974. Excellent machine. 80mpg US. Rode it across the North American continent

That quote about offering all the features at 16:00 explains so much about why Harley-Davidson and BMW have their struggles, decade after decade.

Honda's an absolute powerhouse. The fact they went from the dream to the flat 6 Goldwing in about 30 years is insane.

The Hawk (250cc CB-72) as well as the Super Hawk (305cc CB-77) were single overhead cam (SOHC) not double overhead cam (DOHC). The first consumer DOHC engine, that I remember, was the CB-450. Good video.

I learned how to ride on a 1966 CA95 Dream 150! I was about 8 year old when my Dad put me on it (both of us not wearing helmets, lol) between him and the handlebars, teaching me clutch/throttle control. That was 50 years ago and have not stopped riding since! Miss you Dad..............

The Superhawk was the motorcycle that Pirsig rode across the United States with his son in "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance."

I have a 1966 Honda dream and it is absolutely fantastic. Thank you for bringing light to this wonderful bike. My friends often tell me they’ve never heard of this bike before.

My first bike was a 1965 Honda CL 77, which I bought for $75 US in 1969. I had built a few mini bikes before this but once I had that 28.5 HP "Beast" I knew there was Heaven on Earth. I only had that bike for a year and sold it in 1970 when I went into the Navy. I still have and ride bikes today, mostly BMW's with 2 Honda's in the collection, a 1985 V-65 Magna and a 1991 750 Nighthawk. Yeah, I'm still a 16 year old kid at heart. Old man Honda sure turned the motorcycle landscape on its head with his superb engineering and reliability. I still miss those British bikes though....

Not forgotten by me; my first Japanese bike was a 305 Dream. It died in the Desert, in the Australian Outback, when the air cleaner became accidentally detached, and the bulldust caused the throttle to jam fully open ! It took off across the saltbush, threw me and self-destructed at maximum revs. I certainly have never forgotten that !