1981 Honda CB750K: Regular Car Reviews 

"Under $1000" *stares at 2020 craigslist* *cries*

Somewhere in the depths of Honda's engineering pool, some Japanese gentlemen starts smiling, and he doesn't know why.

This video was incredibly bittersweet for me. I had a cb450sc for a few years and i swear that bike was bulletproof. I road it all over the place, and it could keep up with my friends kitted up custom jobs. I took that thing on shitty backroads, through flooded areas, even over sandy beaches, and it survived all of that (of course i did maintenance but I don't think many modern bikes could take the punishment it did without crapping out). I crashed it a few years ago and I like think that in its final moments it gave me some of its invulnerability for just a moment. I walked away from the crash with a few cuts and bruises, while the nighthawk was literally ripped in half. If I went back and replayed that crash I'm sure, 99 times out of 100 I'm dead or seriously injured. I haven't ridden since then but this video reawakened that self-destructive love I had for riding motorcycles. I doubt you'll see this, but thank you Mr Regular for bringing those memories back. God I loved that bike.

Lol, one man’s dead dad’s bike is another man’s SCORE

Despite it's engine being roughly 1,000ccs smaller than that of my '84 Rabbit, that CB750 makes slightly more power. And even my Insight, with a much more similarly sized engine of only 1,000ccs makes less power than this 30+ year old bike even with an electric motor assisting it. The morale of this comment is that I only own cars that barely make enough power to be functional apparently.

This video will likely bring the price of these bikes to well over $1000 as people start buying more of them at asking price and people that own them figure out what they can get for them. Damn it, it's the Mosin Nagant all over again.

Harley Davidson was once the working man's bike. Then after Malcom Forbes rode his bike with Elizabeth Taylor on the back, it became the rich man's brand. Now it's just the poser brand for weekend wannabes.

I'm 20 and started riding motorcycles at the beginning of this year. I bought a 2017 KTM 390 DUKE and absolutely love it, but i could totally see myself buying one of these. My generation doesn't really care about how 'un-sexappealing' these things are like you're describing them. All we see is a cool and unique vintage bike, i even bet to say that you'd be one of the coolest guys in college if you rolled up on one of these. We didn't live through the 80's so we never experienced how these bikes deserved their 'uncool' stigma. I would take the windjammer off though.

I loved my CB750 Custom, which was a poor attempt to turn it into a cruiser. Same bike, but shaft drive, dual front disc brakes, and a fancy paint job. Great bike. It came with spare fuses, too!

Old Honda’s were engineered to perfection when they actually had competition, they just won’t die no matter how you tried

*opens craigslist

Not sure if the small cut scenes of Mr. Regular saying things is artistic expression or evidence that RCR is now sick and tired of making review videos

These old Japanese bikes are mechanical , bullet proof jewels . But they were developed by engineers and the chassis's have absolutely no feed back or feel through your bum or the bars . Like riding a refrigerator - if you jump from a contemporary italian bike to one of these it's shockingly vague .

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I can't find one this cheap

5:35 NA red miata. Feels good man.

Watch these shoot up in price because of Mr.Regular

Mr. Regular got me into motorcycles. I bought a 93 Yamaha XJ600. It has an air cooled 4 cylinder engine too. It's a great bike.

...and now they're $4,000

Being a harley owner, I never thought I'd want one of these until after this review lol

I absolutely loved the small passages throughout the video. They provoke the imagination. My favorite was, talking thought we cigarette she asked, don’t you like girls.?

Love my handed down CB 750 super sport. Mine is a 1975 model and I'm 17, so my mom really glares at me when I ride. I understand why.

These bikes are A LOT of fun. Mine is stripped down, lowered, pod filters, full delkavic header and exhaust. It's a snappy little thing.

best motorbike is $500 motorbike

"Cafe racer= uuuuuuugggghhhhhhhh"

The modern day version of this bike would be the current Honda NC700X.

I bought an 1981 750k for 1k dollars in 2013 i loved that bike. It had like 40k miles on it and it rode like a dream.

I have never wanted a motorcycle and I have disdain for bikers in general for numerous reasons. Now I want this. Sure, it's Sunday night and I've had too much to drink. Maybe I'm just sick of all the slow and broke down cars I own. I probably should be asleep since I have to work tomorrow. But here I am. Wondering and pondering on being the 9th owner of a used Honda bike. I've already owned 4 Honda cars and my Accord wagon is broke down again. Maybe 2 wheels is a good idea. I'd probably get myself in trouble. I buy slow cars because I have no self control. I drive my 5 speed hhr to work and wish it was fun. But I know I'd do something I shouldn't. So I'll probably just keep doing what I've been doing. But you've made me feel. You've made me question my existence as a "car guy." Do I want to go fast? Yes. Should I? Probably not. Life is strange. 3:50a.m. is a fleeting mistress that always makes me think strange things.

8:15 One man's annoying is another man's easy way of checking if he left his signal on rather than having to repeatedly click in the switch and hope that it registered this time. I honestly like older Honda's for that very reason, shame they stopped making them that way

"15 pierced nipples in Poetry 101"

I don't like to admit how often I cry during your videos.

I had a 81 or 82 CB750K. Got it new as a carryover in 86. Fresh out of the crate. By far the best all around bike I have ever owned. And it was Blue. No 💩 for me. If I could get a pristine model today, I would not hesitate.

Last time I was this early I still had dial up

That’s the perfect bike for a bosozuku build

Man, I'm probably not the only one here who's not into cars but is super into bikes and I wish you made more bike content because it's top-notch stuff!

Damn. That's a great deal on a 750. Never going to find a running clean cb around my area for less that 2k.

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obligatory: OMG GUISE IT'S SO LATE BUT IM WATCHIN THIS INSTEAD OF SLEEPING HA HA HA OMG I HAVE SCHOOL TOMORROW OH WELL EL OH EL.

Just bought a Cb750k 1982 and agree that they are perfect. They are easy to work on and ride. The build quality are also far times better than my suzuki from the same era. Parts are also cheaper and easier to obtain. Sure its a bit boring and wont set your ass on fire but its really a joy to cruise along with. It really stands out with its red/black paints scheme and 4-4 chrome exhaust when standing next to more modern bikes. What ever shortcomings it may have its a true enthusiast motorcycle these days when its in good original condition. Edit: forgot to mention that I only paid 1300$ dollars with 3500 miles and always enjoy peoples reactions how its possible to get these so cheap

I ride an '82 Honda GL500i, Silverwing. Crank out 200+ miles just about every Sunday as well as commute, weather permitting. 55+mpg and yes, it will not die.

"Like the handsome twat you are". Lol, got me there.

Reminds me of the bike out of "Purple Rain"

I bought a 1982 Honda CB750 in Colorado, 1994 or so, with the same fairing you show. Driving it from the house I bought it from, I revved it from a stop and rocketed across the intersection on one wheel. I froze with fear, thinking it was going to flip, but it just kept on riding on its rear wheel, so I leisurely rode it that way for a mile or so, until I came to a red light. Fun bike! It got totaled when a 16-year-old kid in his dad's minivan shot across an intersection and I hit his rear while breaking and swerving to avoid the little jerk. I came to while rolling that 500 pound bike on the pavement, the fairing and windshield shattering around me. God forgive me of all my sins was what went through my mind, but the bike stopped rolling and I got up. I saw the van still driving away and I took off my helmet and threw it at the van while yelling, "You jerk!" The other people in the intersection were looking at me with giant bulging eyes and a commuter overtook the van and forced him over to the curb. The paramedics got there in a few minutes, but I did not have a bruise or scratch on me. My jeans and Air Force arctic parka were cut around the knees and elbows and war surplus M1 tanker's helmet was badly scuffed up with the cheap rubber goggles ruined. Best ten bucks I ever spent in my life for that helmet (I liked it because the ear pieces fold in and stores away easy in the bike luggage). I told the paramedics that I was all right and they asked my zip code while feeling the back of my neck. I opened my mouth to answer, but came to a complete blank. "I don't know my zip code. Great, now I'm retarded! This is exactly what I need!" But then the answer came to me. What a relief! After going through the accident report with the police, I picked up the bike. Turn signals broken off, the fairing destroyed and hanging on twisted metal braces, pipes dented, road-rash and scuffs all over it, but no fluids were leaking. It started right up and I rode it back home. Honda really BUILT these things!

I have one in a shed that needs a little attention. I bought it so my son and I could have a versatile cruiser that was low key and pretty much maintenance free. First time I took it out I was SHOCKED at how fast it climbed from 3k rpm to redline. My daily at the time was a Monster 695 and while the Monster is a "faster' bike the Honda is so much more civilized doing the same 10-80 pull, then you just sit back and let it glide along at 70mph and low rpm and a virtually silent exhaust. if it weighed 100lbs less it would be a perfect machine.

Mmm, I love me some 3 am bike reviews

They’re the fanny pack of motorcycles and they’re amazing

Such profound and life altering poetry.

Picked up my 82 cb650 for 800 bucks with the wind jammer and saddle bags. I love riding it

Do another lawnmower review plz

Psh, fastest cheap motorcycle is probably a Magna V65. I see them regularly for $1000~ish. Still a Honda, slightly newer.

I've blown pistons, Rod bearings, headgaskets, charging systems...and KEPT riding....Always made it home! These old bikes are fucking bulletproof.

I had an 81 CB750 custom. They're very special bikes. 0-60mph in 4.0 seconds, sounds like a race car, rides like an easy chair.

THIS ISN'T A CARRRRR

This video has sufficient levels of BROWN.

My first bike was a '77 CB550K. The little brother to this bike. It had a fairing on it, but it was smaller than this Windjammer. My dad painted a fireball, that emerged from around the headlight, on the black fairing. I thought the fireball was cool at the time, but my friends said otherwise. About 3 years ago I sold a '93 Honda Nighthawk 750 that was a spiritual successor to this bike. I thrashed that bike and it just took it.

Last week while riding my 1980 Goldwing, I caught someone staring and wondering. He walked up and asked if I was riding a CB750. I responded GL1100 in order to preserve my masculinity. He shrugged and walked away. This video helped me research why anyone would my POVERTYGLIDE anything other than a Goldwing. Thank you, Mr Regular. Brown is required.

Wooo it's 4 am again

You know what else they made millions of and people felt wore worthless, Mk I and II for escorts, Mk1 Golf, Beetle... many many high volume cars end up collector items in time, because they are assumed worthless, no-one keeps them. Look at things like coke yo-yos, super mass produced.

You may not want one, but I do. Look at the 70’s on that bike... Thank you Mr. Regular. You’re close to me now. I wish you could drive my EVEN SLOWER ‘84 944 not an ‘S.’

My first motorcycle was a CB750 bought off craigslist, completely original. And it will remain completely original. It's just so perfect.

I’ll tell you why no ones buying it, it looks like someone’s grandpas ugly bike but I do respect the speed

You guys do know that it's a bosozuku bike, right?

I had a 1978 CB750K (last year of the single overhead cam). I did some top end work and didn't know about blowing out the oil lines that run through little holes in the head and ended up oil starving one of the camshaft mounts, which caused the camshaft to snap, turning my inline 4 into an inline twin. That bike didn't care and got me home on two cylinders just fine. Cleaned out the tubes I'd missed, put in a new camshaft, and rode that bike for another 15k miles before selling it to someone else in great working order. Those bikes were (and are) amazing.

I owned this motorcycle in the 1990s with a full Vetter Windjammer with lowers, Vetter detachable saddlebags, and travel trunk. I did three Iron Butt events on this cycle including the ride around all the Great Lakes. I earned the Iron Butt certificate but not the Gold certificate because the speed limits are really low in Ontario and there were no gas stations open after 10 PM. I saw a lot of moose on the side of the road.

I'm more of a V45 Magna/Sabre guy myself.

I want one, and i want to make it a bosozoku bike

"Where is my closure in a high-speed mo-dem?" genius.

Mr Regular, I feel like most of your toilet humor is not enhancing your stories like it used to. Also, you once said that you don't use profanity because it is unnecessary to get the point across.

Why can't Americans properly pronounce 'twat'?

Had exactly same bike !! Great bike. I did remove extra weight of it rode it for a while and resold making $ to buy honda 919 my dream bike :) love it.

" fifteen pierced nipples in poetry 101" that was god damn beautiful

Love the random factoids about older "regular" stuff like this, but I really am having a hard time enjoying it with the trying too hard crapola inserted in between. I'm not here for the granola banter I hear from my failed "writer" brother in law at Thanksgiving... I want more shit about shitty regular cars.

I would definitely Cafe racer it

Tks Mr. Regular! Love that review! It isn't a head Turner or a panty dropper but I bought a CB750 6 years ago from the original owner and I've never been happier with a vehicle purchase. Bulletproof. Rode on a 2500 mi round trip this summer with 18 hrs straight the last day and made it!

This was cool seeing you drive around rolling meadows. Come to Chicago more often!

>>>>>>>>>>that 30 year old boomer

NOT A CAR

My first bike was my dad's 1980 Suzuki GS850G with a windjammer similar to that one. It had shaft drive and twin front discs. It handled better than alot of new bikes I've ridden once I put a set of bridgestones on it. I compare every bike I try to it, and most come up short in one way or another.

If you're from my town, you probably learned to ride bike on this bike because every driver school has one. (there are 3 drivers school in my tawn and all 3 of them have one)

Somebody will read this comment.

not a car

This makes Monday worth waking up early for. Thanks RCR

What a beautiful buy. Mine is a 1980 CB750F sporty one and has its original twin mufflers . It now has 115,000 miles on it. It is still such a pleasure to ride.

This bike is _screaming_ for the Purple Rain paint-job. Happy New Year, RCR guy and guy who sings the opening songs for each RCR VJO!

I was excited to see the Windjammer. Cool? No. Great weather protection, fuel economy benefits, and they can fit so much stuff they could be some very esoteric car salesman meme. I can fit a medium-sized bag of groceries in each compartment. The one that locks is a nice touch too-protecting some emergency kit & insurance info when parked. All the cool kids are cafe-ing and I'm here having once driven 3 hours to pick up a shiny, like-new Windjammer SS for my CX500; It had been sitting in a basement since 1979. I'm at the point where my CX looks and feels strange to me without it.

got a 1985 CB700SC for $1400, guy said it was on craigslist for 3 months no lookers. For a quick, good looking, turn key bike you can't beat these 80s bikes.

Let me tell you, I have a 1980 CB 400T Hawk and my dad has a 1975 Goldwing GL1000. My dad uses it for touring, so of course he has the windjammer and the saddlebags, but I'll be damned if I ever cafe out my bike. I'm not downing anyone else, but I love my bike as it is and don't plan on changing it. If I had the money to get my hands on a 750-Four I would keep it as is. That's part of the experience. It's not to relive the days of when they came out, it's for your own to go out and enjoy the roads and go on trips.

This was my first bike. In 1995. I bought it for $500 off a neighbor girl's boyfriend. Mine was black, with the same tan and orangeish-brown pinstripes. (Yours I believe is "Wineberry.") They were/are ugly. But they were/are crazy fast, unbelievably reliable, and mechanics still work on them, no problem. Put a fuel filter on them, and it'll never give you problems. The dinner plate sized clutch disks never wear out, and as you mentioned, the carbs never really seem to go out of sync. And if they do (Usually evident by one discolored or rusted head pipe- even though the head pipes were double-walled) It won't really stop the rock-solid reliability. (Carb issues can be from rubber tube dry-rot leaks also. The tubes are getting harder to come by, but can be fixed with black automotive RTV/Silicone.) There must have been maybe an "A" and "B" model of the "K." Because mine had 4 into 4 exhaust, and dual front disks. These are being shipped overseas to Asian countries in droves. (They are apparently huge status symbols in China, Japan, Thailand, Singapore, ect.) So amazingly they're getting harder to come by than they were in the early 2000s. Definitely still a contender for a solid used bike that will serve you well.

My dad had one of these growing up his was a 78 model I think and it was a great bike I myself had a CB550FOURK which was also a great bike. My uncle bought the 550 new in the 70’s and he layed it over in the yard with 400 miles on it and he put it in the garage and it set there till 1994 when I bought it and had the carbs rebuilt and all the rubber and plastics replaced basically making it like a new bike. Also he had bags and a big windshield and crash bar and after market taillights it was loaded. I rode that bike for years and even used it like a dirt bike when it got older and I stopped caring about it as much. Bulletproof bikes that’s for sure.

Your motorcycle reviews are the best

woot! More people need to know about theses 80's Hondas! I'm 37 and learned on a cm400t and now have an 82 Goldwing. These Honda bikes just won't die!

09:23 Rode past my donut shop. As a long time subscriber, it truly geeked me out. Thanks for visiting the Northwest Subarbs.

Owned one. A 2001 model. This motor went unchanged from 1972 til last production year 2003. In 2009 Motorcyclist Magazine name the CB750 the most important motorcycle design of the century. When the bike was introduced in 1969 a new term was coined "Superbike", a new class of motorcycle had been invented. Also, in 2009 Honda made an anniversary edition for domestic Japanese consumption. Oh yeah, collectors from around the world snapped up a few, EPA regs be damned. Call it whatever you will. The bike is a legend.

I finally found one of these in NJ and the owner wants $4,600 for it. Thanks, dude. Appreciate the video, homie.

Not to get all sappy here but my dad had one of those when i was young and this brings back a lota memories ...So thank you for doing a review on this.

I'm a daily driver of my 21 year old Cbr1100xx, it's freaking fantastic! Some of us know about these old Honda motorcycles. I'm 65 still working and myself and my bike are still going strong! It's totally reliable and totally stupid fast.

I have the SOHC cb750. It had compounding issues that made me want to park it, I had some extra cash so I decided to get a Sportster 1200. It seemed like a logical decision. And I got one from the early 90's, a good deal but also had that classic look that carried over from the Ironheads. I hated it, it sounded great, looked good, and made it's way down the road just fine. But it was a constant battle trying to get it to do what I wanted. It fights you the whole way unless you just want to cruise and be cool. I sold it after 2 months and decided to tackle the cb's issues. Once I got back on it and took it down the road the first thing that I realized was how smooth and refined it was. I felt like I was floating. I had ridden that harley daily pretty much and got used to the vibration and clunky transmission. The CB's refinements were amazing by comparison. Not even considering the 23 year age difference. It really put a lot of things in comparison. I also realized I wanted to rev the snot out of a bike.

This was my first bike when I was 20! Absolutely loved it. Rode great, plenty of power and speed, handles like a much lighter bike, and never any mechanical problems. Man I miss that thing. Made some cafe style changes to it, clubman bars, custom seat, side exit exhaust, sleeker indicators, and a few others. Can wait to find my next CB750K.

Can I just say that last poem was fucking fire. It’s not true to me exactly but the sentiment of intent resounds in my ear like music.

Back in the day, I was a Harley guy. That was before Harleys were reasonably well made. Then I got to try out my brother in law's mid 1970s Honda CB 750. It was an epiphany. That bike was so good, building it was a subversive act.