1967 Honda CL77 305cc Scrambler - owned for 55 years!
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- Thank you Russ for visiting the cul-de-sac again and sharing the wonderful story of your your 1967 Honda CL77 305cc Scrambler.
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Thank You everyone for the wonderful comments. There’s nothing like the memory of your first bike and how you discovered the joy of riding.
I paid $550.00 for the bike in 1967. I bought it in Berkeley, California.
The mileage is 19k miles and counting all put on by me. It is kept in a garage and all the maintenance is done by myself. No engine work and it still has the original clutch. I’m running points ignition with no problems and have upgraded to newer tires to ride safely on the street. I do have the original pipes with the welded on muffler and found these pipes and the snuffers online. I’ve adjusted the carbs to run a bit rich, better than too lean so I don’t burn a valve. I checked this morning and the front tire is running in the correct rotation direction.
The snuffs are “open” both on the approach and take off scenes in the cul-de-sac. With them closed, it’s just more muted and socially acceptable .
The tank badge wings if you notice, one has a silver inlay and one is gold. One was cracked when I went down on the street so I replaced it. Some badges say Honda 300 and some just have the wing insignia. No story there, Honda just made running changes during the manufacturing process.
The Scrambler is kick start only and once it’s warmed up and you hear the open pipes with the 180 degree crank, it’s pure music! One click down for first gear and you take off and it puts the biggest grin on your face! ~Russ
It is so cool that you still have your 305 after all these years…thank you for the trip back in time.
Great story. All my friends had 305 scramblers, I opted for a 1966 Suzuki X6 Hustler 250 cc 29 horsepower. But I have to ask, did you own any other motorcycles over the years? Thanks John in Boston
I was born the same year! Used Honda 50 first bike. Honda 65 second bike. Honda CB77 Super Hawk third bike (100 mph on that one!), then THE CL77 Scrambler. Yeah !!!! Motorcycles are so fun ! Many years, many bikes. I went 156 mph (speedometer) on my Suzuki SV1000---crazy and stupid. Now I ride a minibike, Tomos moped, and small dirt bikes. Two wheels as long as I can. Going riding tomorrow! God Bless and keep having fun.
Love that you still have your first bike so many of us only have fond memories and regrets of selling ours. I still have the the skeleton of my second bike but with the price of what people want for parts now it will most likely remain a memory the takes up space. I do have a Yamaha 1974 125 Enduro that needs a facelift I’m hoping I’ll get to before age slows me down to much.
So let me understand - since 1967 you have upgraded the tyres once? 😳
I took my brother’s red 1967 305 Scrambler in 1968 from Rome Georgia thru Atlanta to Washington, DC, 754 miles in ~13 hours, from 5:30 to 7 pm with stops only for refueling and the restroom. 6000 rpm allday long, 60-70mph, my teeth and jaw hurt for the next two days!
I'm 71 years old. Everything Russ said about motorcycles in the 60's is true!!! Great video today, Mike.
Many thanks! Hope you are doing well. Best wishes
I was Bonkers over this Bike and I still want one today, I ended up buying a new 1970 Suzuki scrambler but I still wanted one of these, I loved the exhaust sound and I thought it was the coolest, it was so much cooler than the Super Hawk and it required you to kick start it. I started to see custom colors on the tank and fenders Candy Apple Red and then Metal flake were used . I can’t tell you how popular these bikes were !
I wish Honda would make these bikes again, perhaps a 605 Scrambler !
same here (age) but all the rest was just a dream still living behind the iron curtain......
Russ is telling my story same age, same location, same bike - one thing Honda deserves credit for is that their motors didn’t leak oil and the British bikes always leaked oil. Even today I’ll bet that 305 doesn’t leak any oil ? Also on many of the bikes the exhaust pipes would turn blue at the motor if they had been driven hard - Russ’ bike has pipes that look new and tells me that he does love that bike … great story and thanks
@@wardmontgomery9259 Out of tune, blue pipes. I think running rich causes that
Our neighbor had a 305 Scrambler with a fairing when I was a kid in the late 60’s Huntington Beach, CA. We went for a ride and I remember looking over his shoulder and we were going 105MPH on a straight stretch of road by the Santa Ana River. 50 years later and I still remember how thrilling it was.
305 Scrambler has always been one of my very favorite motorcycles. It looked great, sounded batter, and has withstood the test of time. Hearing a 305 Scrambler without the muffler wind up through the gears is a great sound.
Yeah, but the idle is cool too, ba-doom, ba-doom, ba-doom.
That was the bad thing! In 1967 the muffler was welded on. Guy’s with earlier one could take the muffler off! My dad wasn’t going for cutting the muffler off!
In the 70's at the age of 17-18 had a bolt on hard tail chopper built from a 68 305 scrambler.
Remember passing on coming Harley's and getting the a sign. It felt pretty cool.
The passion and the story are worth more than the bike ! Absolutely wonderful!
How cool was Russ 👍 brilliant story teller.
I graduated high school in 1967, I love these Hondas !!!
My 2nd bike was a 65 305 Scrambler which I had chromed on several of the parts and
the tank was painted Ember red the same as my 64 Corvair Monza and Tommy the Greek, in Oakland, striped the tank for me. I bought the bike from Nelson Bros. at 45th ave and E 14th st.. I traded it back in to them in for a BSA Lightning which was stolen out of my car port while I was at work. I then got a 67 Triumph Bonneville which modified to my to my tast wwith chrome and paint and a Sunny Rout 750 kit and Sifton cams. It was a rocket. I am now 84 and currently have a Kawasaki 650 Ninja which I love to ride and it will blow away the old 650 Bonnies and BSA's. Progress but the old bikes taught me how to ride and I even raced Moto X for a period of 12 years.
Many thanks for sharing Cedric! What a great time that must have been. Best wishes, Mike
I owned a '68 305 scrambler in 1973 and then I got a 68' 305 Super Hawk in 1974. The Super Hawk actually would out run my friends BSA 650. I really loved losing the choppers of the mid 70s on the back roads of West Virginia.
I had a 1963 (or ‘64) 305 Superhawk in 1966 on the Canadian prairies. At the time I was flying jets as a 21 year old trainee in the RCAF.
It was a great bike with a good suspension geometry so handling felt secure.
The manual said to obey the 9000 rpm redline in all but the top gear, 4th. In 4th you got exactly 10 mph/1000 rpm and the tach and speedo went to 120 mph and 12,000 rpm.
One summer day I was on a very long, very straight road going south near Saskatoon with a wind of about 30 mph coming from the northwest. I could see how little throttle it was taking to maintain speed so I thought I’d see what the bike might be capable of. I adopted my most streamlined position (judged by my shadow on the road), which was feet on the passenger pegs, throttle friction set tight so I didn’t have to hold it open, enabling me to steer with each hand gripping top of a fork tube directly, keeping my arms tucked in.
Streamlining, if not safety, was helped by the fact I was in a t-shirt and was not wearing a helmet but was wearing wrap-around sunglasses.
My speed fairly quickly increased to 117 mph indicated, corroborated by the tach reading 11,700 rpm, and stabilized there! I was aware that this was only a 305cc motor with a claimed 28.5 hp and was a little concerned about damaging it but I decided to find out what these Hondas were made of so decided to stay at that speed until I reached the next city limits (Moose Jaw) and had to slow down.
That was about 15 more miles. I half expected the motor to seize when I backed off on the throttle in town but at the first street light I was amazed that after about 15-20 minutes at 11,700 rpm it settled into a completely normal sounding idle.
I have respected Honda’s skills in engine design ever since, which is one reason I currently drive a Ridgeline.
To my ears the nicest sounding motorcycle exhaust was the 250 scrambler at high revs. Music! I could hear a hint of it as Russell rode away near the end. Russell’s right - I should still have that bike but, as the Germans say “You get too soon old and too late smart”.
I'm a 64 year-old Englishman and I recognise this story.
I had a 1968 Honda CB350, I was 21 years old, it was my 3rd bike and my first new bike. I had a 58 Cushman Eagle, then a Honda C-90, it was maybe a 65 or 66 model. rode over 300,000 miles, rode Gold Wings starting in 78, had to quit riding 3 years ago due to severe arthritis. Had to sell the Wing a couple of years ago, first time I didn't have a bike since I was 20 years old. I had hoped to ride another 5 years or so, but it wasn't to be. I still have a 1978 Yamaha DT 175 I traded for about 1980, can't ride it but I'll find it a good home one of these days.
Thank you for showing us your (what we called " Big Bear Scrambler"). In 1972, at the age of 16, by working sacking groceries, I bought a red 1970 Honda CL Scrambler. I replaced the high pipes with TT pipes. The sound brought back many great memories.
I was 13 when my older brother bought a 1968 orange scrambler. I rode on the back, then 2 years later I bought a 1973 CB 175 twin (dual carb). Wish I kept it. Great story, Thanks.
There's something special about an older dude riding up on a motorcycle and telling his story. I hope lots of younger men and boys see this.
I recall my first ever motorcycle ride or any combustion engine vehicle was also on a honda 50 in the early 70's. My Dad wanted to collect his car from the garage and so I rode with him to the garage on the back of the Honda 50 and was to drive behind him on the Honda 50 on the way back. I was only 15 so no licence / insurance etc He got stopped on the way back by the police for not yielding properly at a junction with me riding behind. I just rode on pretending I did not know the guy. The exhilarating feeling of being able to keep up with traffic for the first time was wonderful.
My first bike was a Harley 250 Sprint and the second was the Honda 305 Scrambler. Sold them both but still have the memories. Thanks for sharing yours!
Yeah. That was my time. So admire men who held on to those great old bikes.
I’m 71 now and owned my sweet 67 Honda 305 scrambler from 1968 to 1971. Rode all over the Bay Area from Castro Valley. When I went in the Army in 71, my mom sold my 305. Hopefully someone else enjoyed the heck out of it too. It looked exactly like yours.
At seventy, I find the narrative here spot on; the best part not being the bike, but rather, that the bike is still being ridden!
I got mine in '73. It wasn't running and I don't think my Mom thought it ever would. I fixed it and rode it for 5 years. First thing I did was take the "snuffers" out of the end of the pipes and did it ever sound great! I sold it to my best friend and he rode it for 4 years. Loved it!
In 1971 I was 19 years old and I bought a used 1967 CL 77 305 Honda Scrambler as my first bike. Wish I still had it. The bike I ride now is a 2015 Triumph Scrambler 900 I purchased new.
The golden age of motorcycles ,that bike us beautiful
That's such a nice story. I'm 78 and I recall those early Honda days hanging around the hole in the wall dealerships on Saturday mornings dreaming about such bikes as yours. My first bike was a used 250 cc YDS-2 Yamaha 2 stroke that you had to mix oil in the gas. After about a year of smoking up the environment I sold the Yamaha and purchased my first new bike - a S-90 Honda that I used for transportation to and from work. After a couple of years I purchased a used 1965 Triumph TR-6 single carb bike in the early 70's. Having 3 older brothers catching the bug when they saw my bike all bought CB-750 Hondas. We made several day trips and my Triumph was a beautiful bike but I was always so envious of their trouble free - electric start Hondas. The youngest of my older brothers still had his 750 right up to the time of his passing at the age of 84. More than just an adventure on 2 wheels, this provided the impetus for my second oldest brother and I to form a partnership with building 2 motorcycle dealerships - one Yamaha, our first and a year later, one Honda dealership. Each located in two separate rural communities in Northern Indiana. Thank you for recalling for me all of those great memories! In the spirit of Robert Crumb - "Keep on Trucking"!
You meet the nicest people on a Honda.
WOW! A flood of memories for me. My first bike was a used 66 305 Scrambler. Put some miles on it. I tried the Snuff or Nots and got a ticket for illegal exhaust! lol In 68 I upgraded to a 350 Scrambler and in 70 I bought one of those "some day" bikes. A brand new 1970 Triumph Bonneville! Ah the good old days.
In 62 my best friend got the 250 Scrambler. We went everywhere on that bike. Before that most of us had the CB-50cc, not the step through. Back then I was 15 and we all started out with Mini Bikes. The Scrambler really wasn't a very good off-road bike but we often tried. My kingdom to go through those times again!! Today most people can't even drive a car with a standard trans. Bikes are a complete mystery to them.
Great story and great storyteller! Wouldn’t we all love to still have our first proper bike in the garage? Mine was a Honda CJ 250 twin in bright yellow, followed by a brand new CB400F.
Mine was a 1963 Suzuki 50 M15 4 speed. I was 16 in 1969. I used it for 2 years before this on the fields. I put it on the road when i got to 16. Passed my test on it and bought a 1959 BSA A7.
I believe the first bike I ever had was a 1981 Honda 400 - would love to still have it.
I too, am 71 years old, and this gent is telling it like it ... was! First bike I ever rode (I was 15 then) was a buddy's 1967 305 Scrambler. In Tucson Arizona, 1967.
My family moved to Oakland in Fall of 1968. I know all the places you've visited!
Thanks for the great memory you've shared with us!
Lovely guy, lovely story! Great looking (and sounding) bike showing 50 years of patina
Yes, I never knew the scrambler in the UK but I bought, with a "soft" loan from the Bank of Dad, a CB77 in 1963 when I was 17. We did not know it as the Superhawk in Britain though, that term was never heard back then! Great bike and I can verify that around 9000 was the redline, but mine could get to 11000 rpm when required to race against the likes of Norton, Triumph and BSA 650s!
I also removed the baffles for a better sound. The motor lasted 7000 miles of very fast road use and then seized. I sold the bike back to the dealer I bought it from who told me that removing the baffles caused the seizure as a result of lack of back-pressure. I reckon it was the 11000 rpm that did the trick though, finally being just too much to ask from the motor!
What a fantastic story ,not many people have ever kept their first bike, my first Honda was a 160cc Honda and what a amazing bike that was twin carbs with big bell mouths on and could easily top 80mph no problem and I was only 17 years old at the time so that was bloody fast after my first bike a James's 250cc single two stroke,I could easily keep up with my brother and his mates on Triumph 650cc outfits, back in 1971 you could ride big Triumphs on L plates on as long as they had a sidecar on but many at the times just had big wooden boxes on them, I'm talking about England back in the 70is and what was good about it once you've past the test you could take the sidecar off and ride about on a 650cc Triumph manly Triumph thunderbirds or Triumph 110 bloody hell I wish we had kept all the Triumph motorcycles what my brother had and his mates had at the time we would be well off now,sorry that I'm going on a bit about old times, back to this story of someone able to keep and still ride your first big motorcycle I salute him for keeping the motorcycle for 55 years unbelievable ..
Got my first traffic ticket ever on my 305...for doing a wheelie through an intersection.
Just the sound of the Scrambler sends chills up my arms and makes the hears stand on end. I had a 305cc that was red and gray. It sends me back in time to 1965 in San Francisco. The Excelsior District. Upper mission. and Ocean Avenue. I am now 78 years and still ride two wheels. Be safe out there.
Great story...... loved the old pictures.
Thanks for the wonderful vid. Very nostalgic for me. My Dad had a 250 Scrambler. I really admired it, but I was too small to ride. He sold to a kid across the street that was starting collage. He rode it about a month, then it suffered a catastrophic failure. The mom was really mad, so my Dad refunded her the money back. Tearing the bike down, he discovered that the culprit was the spark plug! The carbide anode had fallen out and into the cylinder, causing the damage. My Dad notified NGK, but they never got back to him. I still have our 160 (not running) Honda Dream, to dream about restoring...
Back in the 70's I had a'67 160 and a 305. Both Scramblers. Great bikes.
Russ is great! He speaks of being "bitten by the bug" so early in his life...and here he is all these years later still riding. When he's talking about his bike, his eyes light up...probably much like they did the first time he saw it in that garage so many years ago. Thanks for inviting him over to the cul-de-sac to share his story!
My dad had a 305 super hawk he let me ride.And a 150 dream.
@@jefferyhurley151 my 1st bike was a 150 dream I had a r 305 super hswk later. Turned it into a 3 wheeler. Terror of the sand dunes in Weynoka Oklahoma in about 1978.
73 now...bought a 305 in Huntington Beach CA 4 735 bucks. Ran the wheels of it. Everybody new the secret sound of the scrambler. THOSE were the days...
A modern version with a modern components with the retro styling would sell out faster than Honda could make them.
My high school ride was a 67 305,miss it to this day.
At 17 in 1967 I owned one. What a great time! What a great motorcycle!
Loved this bike. Had one from 1968 to 71'. Rode it all over California. Also, took a trip along the west coast from Los Angles to Seattle and back in 1970. Had so much fun.
damn it I wish I still had mine from 1970,NOTHING else sounds like this bike.So glad you still have it.
That was my bike also. I recognized that sound as soon as you drove into the scene. Like the voice of an old friend.
My first bike was a Honda 305 SuperHawk (this was in 1968) - lots of fun with that bike, though I did crash it into a telephone pole. After I healed from that I bought a 450 Ducati and have owned various other bikes over the next 54+ years. Great fun.
Oh man, why did I have to run into this video. When I was 16 in 1965, me and my best friend each purchased a 1965 CL77 305 Scrambler. My friend was a year older and went to a different high school. If I remember correctly, the price was around $800. Wow, what a fantastic 4 years we had with our bikes. I can remember my junior year a classmate purchased a new 1966 Suzuki x6 hustler 250cc six speed. After school one day we went out in the country to the, you know, the out of town dragstrip. LOL Anyway, I beat him in our drag race and he was pissed. I even went to the Suzuki dealer with him a day or so later when he bitched at them because his new bike was suppose to beat a 305 Scrambler. Anyway, I beat Yamaha 250 and 305 scramblers with my Honda. We sold our bikes 4 years later, I didn't get another bike and my friend bought a new burnt orange Harley Davidson XLCH Sportster. I got so many vivid awesome memories of the 4 years with that motorcycle.
Nice history !
Glad you kept the 305 !
I started riding at age 17 in 1973. I liked bikes so much , that I got my license even before owning a motorcycle.
I was the 5th owner of a Yamaha CT1 175 trail bike, the first model 175 trail that Yamaha made.
Man, I really did lots of miles on that bike.
Keep riding. I still do at 67.
All the best.
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West Indies.
I owned one of these in the sixties and loved it. Then went off to Europe and asked my father to sell it (a regretted decision, of course). Now I own a Honda 400f, bought new by me in 1976 and still ridden every week in Northern California.
I bought my dream bike in 2017at 68 years of age. Triumph T100. 900cc. A seed was planted when my Dad came home on a Speed Twin in 1960. In '68 my brother bought a brand new Bonneville. In those days boys dreamt of two things, pretty girls and "Bonnies"
I've done 116000km in the five years I've had the bike.
It's like having a piece of a better time
Wow, Russ filled in a good narrative about the Honda Scramblers, great to see. I raced our first 250 version in 1962, box-stock, for our dealer in Wichita named Nichols Honda. I won 2nd place on it at the Winfield Fairgrounds behind a fella named Barney Gentry who had a H-D Sprint "R" set up for oval racing. Looking at this video, I can see that the scramblers did have good weight distribution and though heavy, didn't show any sudden tendencies to pitch a rider off. I went to work for Nichols and eventually helped set up a dealer in White Plains, N.Y. - we sold quite a few scramblers during their production life.
Many thanks for your great note. I really really enjoyed reading it. Best wishes, Mike.
I had a 305 when I wa a kid. But it wasn't the Scrambler. It was the one with the street pipes on it. Man these bikes were bulletproof ! And "fast" !
Give him a cue, and off he goes! :^) This gent could speak coherently and topically, without rambling or straying from the topic, _indefinitely,_ with no risk of boring anyone! (Looks incredibly fit & healthy for his age, too.)
My Uncle Kev had one of these. It chucked him off and broke his leg.
As he liked to say "You meet the nicest people falling off a Honda".
Yep, I had the CL72 250 scrambler with Snuff or Nots in Montana. It sounded amazing in the mountains to my young ears when they were open!
My dad had a 305 SuperHawk when I was a kid. I rode on the back of that everywhere. I still remember going down the Pasadena freeway hauling butt. We had lots of fun on it.
Like a walk down memory lane in watching your great 305 video!! I must be exactly your age as I bought mine used while in my senior year at Whiitier H.S. in 67', my friends had 250's, Triumphs, and BSA's that took us on many an adventure. I'll never forget that very 1st ride (without helmets) and that feeling of total freedom, ahhhhhh the sheer exhilaration of it all, I remember it like it was yesterday!
Chris Acoutin
Huntington Beach, Calif.
Great story and motorcycle. my older brother bought a new 1966 honda cl77 and would take me for rides, so of course at the age of sixteen i purchase my first street legal bike a used 305 scrambler, two years later at the age of eighteen i rode that motorcycle to work only to be fortunate enough to be one of the first people to ride the brand new 1975 gl1000 because i was working at the largest honda motorcycle dealership in ohio at the time. i'm still riding at 66 years old. thanks for the great memories.
REAL BIKE,MR IN BETWEEN,NOT TOO SMALL,NOT TOO BIG,JUST RIGHT,BRO BOUGHT ONE BRAND NEW,I RODE IT,IMPRESSIVE
I had a 1973 Honda CB350 and my buddy had one of these and they were awesome bikes back then......Funny story is one day I needed a ride somewhere so we both hopped on his scrambler and was going about 50 and the back tire blew out and I thought we were both going to die.....But we both survived and lived to tell about it.
One of my earliest "big" bikes and an all time favorite.
Great story!
In 1967 I was in the Army stationed at Fort Rucker, Alabama.
I didn't have a car, nor could I afford one on PFC pay.
A guy in my unit was getting sent overseas and decided to sell his Honda 305 Dream and offered it to me, so I sold everything I owned and came up with the $200 he wanted for it.
Another guy in my unit had a 305 Scrambler and we went everywhere on those bikes.......they were the only transportation we had at that time.
I have been riding Harley Davidson motorcycles since 1979 and still ride almost every day at 78 years young.
That old Honda Dream is what started my love for to wheel vehicles and have wished a thousand times that I still had it.
I really enjoy the stories of "pfc's" and bikes, I had much the same, we enlisted to move forward, and those "junk bikes" were often all we could scrape together. I moved on through a Ducati 250, 650 triumph, 441 BSA, flathead 45, and a 74 sportster, still riding a couple Harley's and a Triumph to this day. Just 65, but perhaps I'll get there in time.
I remember my friend,, I truly remember! Thanks for the memory.....
My first bike was a 1965 Honda 150cc Touring. I was 15 at the time, I really enjoyed riding it. Traded it in for my first car, also a 1965, a Ford Galaxy 500 Convertible. Had lots of fun with both of them.
Beautiful,,,I owned a 305 super hawk for a number of years,,most fun I had on a bike,,,thanks for the memories...
It's true - you really do meet the nicest people on a Honda! Great video Mike & Thanks Russ for telling your story. When I was an engineering apprentice back in '71, two of my mates had similar models to this. Steve had a 250 CB72 bought for £25 and Paul had a 305 with Dunstall pipes that made it sound a bit like Russ's scrambler. Happy days...
Many thanks Nigel! Russ really is one of the nicest people on a Honda 😉
Great story. I’m from the same age , only south in Inglewood CA. My scrambler was a Kawasaki A7 350. What a great time it was.
A great documentary , Caffeine & Gasoline: The Evolution of the American Rocker is streaming and tells the story of those wonderful days.
LOL I got my first ticket back in 1969 on my 305 Scrambler with the Snuff-or Nots OPEN and yes it was for excessive Noise! I still have the ticket by the way and it cost me $8.00 !
Great story and nice 305. I also still have my 1965 305 scrambler as of this day since 1977
I had a 66’ Honda s90 with that same exhaust baffle system. Dad bought me that when I was 13 also. What a great time I had on that thing. Rode my whole life off road in the tillamook forest,raced motocross, had street bikes as well. This was a great video brought back so many memories. Had a neighbor in Salem that had one of those 305 scrambler you could always tell it was him coming or going. Thanks for the video.
Also grew up in California. Newport Beach to be exact. Four of us had the 305 but for some reason we all decided to take the front fender off and put on a fork brace. Of course we all had the snuffer nuts on the pipes.. Great days..
Another Russ here, got bit early as well with the 1971 Kawasaki F7 enduro, 175cc, sill have it and family outings with it, before ORV in Oregon. I'm still riding, 50 years as a motorcyclist this year, cheers to all.
Cheers Russ!
I had the Super Hawk and wanted the Scrambler so bad. I put the Scrambler pipes on mine. Thanks for the memories
I owned a red CL77 too as my first bike. The great thing about it was that the motor was virtually bullet proof. The suspension and brakes, not so much. Funny, I got ticketed by the cops twice for open pipes. Bottom line was that it was an extremely forgiving motorcycle and great for a beginner. I sadly sold it when I bought a Triumph Bonneville and had to learn to wrench to keep the thing running. You can't imagine how many times I wished that the Bonny's engine was as reliable as the Honda. I wish that I still owned the Honda, not so much the Triumph. Nice story. It took me back to a really fun time.
My first street legal bike was a 1966 305 Scrambler that I bought when I was 16 in 1968. Months later, I traded it for a 1955 Harley KH Flathead. Been riding Harleys ever since, but still love the Honda.
Thoroughly enjoyed your video.Your story is so similar to my Scrambler.Mine was bought new in 1965 .That model had a slip off muffler with no welds.I ran straight exhaust right up to the day I traded the bike in on a 396 Chevelle .I always regretted letting her get away.Run the clock forward to last year at the Barber Festival.Yep,there she was a '67 Cl77 with a set of '65 pipes !Brought her home .....long lost love restored.
I lived on USAF bases and a lot of the young airmen had BSA Lightnings, Triumph Bonnevilles and Hondas !!!
Best friend had a 305 super hawk...but I always loved the scrambler...
I bought a new CL77 in 1966. I recall it had a red frame with silver tank. Great bike. Had to sell it to get money to pay for college.
I graduated high school in 1967. These bikes sounded so cool. Congrats on keeping it nice for so long.
Talk about going down memory lane, I'm 74 & the 305 Honda Scrambler was my very first motorcycle only it had a red frame, I loved it & enjoyed riding it almost everyday !!
Thanks a lot Manfred. Yes, that's another good way. I tend to use the back wheel to help with those little taps needed but the kickstarter is just as effective. Best wishes, Mike
Great story of Russ's early motorcycle life. Wonderful bike all the better for being original and unrestored. Thank you.
My first bike was a 90cc scrambler. The 2nd and most favorite was a 305cc Scrambler. Both were gray and black. They both vibrated like crazy but a lot of good times both on and off the road. 😎
Honda should make them again......they would sell. These did sound wicked.
Man I can relate to your story my first street bike was a 1960 honda 300 dream with a busted clutch cable and a flat tire for $10.00 from a hippie that was 1969 what a blast that was been riding since still riding riding is life👍😎
I tuned into this video because one of my high school friends had a 305 Scrambler (40+ years ago), I thought it sounded great!
Nice shape - it is one of the iconic motorcycles of all times.
I owned one of these back in the '70s. I remember getting an excessive noise ticket for running my pipes like he is w/o the muffler 😅
Thanks a lot for your great comment. Yes, they sound pretty loud without the mufflers, don’t they! Best wishes.
I've a Aermacchi-Harley Davidson SS 350 from 1972 , it was once bought from a American catalogue by British soldier based in Germany where I got it 35 yrs ago........still has a very low mileage because I used Honda's Enduro's for my trips to Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey.
I had same story! But my dad bought to me a 50cc honda. This make cry! Beautiful!
My first bike at 12 of age was a Honda 305 superhawk. Later I acquired a 305 dream, much better for cruising. Fun bikes and I wouldn't trade my experiences for anything.
The Oakland hills and Millbrae hills were a lot of fun when they were terraced for homes to be built, at the time I was riding a Bridgestone 100 that my dad bought for my brother I was in 6th or 7th grade my dad had the bolt on bumper racks to bring the bike around for us to ride. Lake Tahoe also had the rental quarter midget track, in my late teens we discovered that the cross country ski trails of Squaw were the perfect place to ride our bikes I had graduated from my first bike a Yamaha 175 Enduro to a 650 BSA Lightning.
My brother had a Honda Scrambler I remember the seat was like riding on a buckboard.
Loved the video! I too grew up in the '60's and got bit early on. My first bike was a '49 Cushman when I was 12. Two years later my understanding Dad headed to Tulsa one bright Sunny day to take care of some business he said. When we got to the Yamaha shop he pulled right in and we got out and saw a new 80cc street bike running on the stand. I looked at the paper tag and it had my name on it! Dad said I could have it if I could ride home which was about eight miles. I had only ridden a bike with a clutch once in a parking lot but I became a fast learner with no license that day in 1965. Great memory, Thanks Dad! Now at 73 years old I am working on a '65 Honda 305 Dream.
Best bike that I ever owned. Love the sound of that 180 degree crankshaft!
I lived in southern CA and bought a 305 super hawk. I road the hell out of it when it had about 25000 miles on it ( 1966 April ) I was out of work and getting home sick so I took off for my grandfathers ranch in South Dakota visited a few weeks then finished my trip to Vermont got home the first of June . When I sold it in 1968 it had 54000 miles on it unheard of for any motorcycle in those days . When I left CA I only had $ 200.00 still had $ 9.00 left when I got home ( Brattleboro VT)
Brought back some memories, I live near the centre of England and in 1966 I wanted the 250 Honda CB72, Like you I did my paper rounds and odd little jobs to save the money to buy a 1 year Honda, In Uk Money it cost me £150 loved that bike, However when I started a family I had to sell the Bike. When I hit the 50s I started riding again and bought Harley Softail plus 5 years ago I bought a Sportster as well it is the XL1200 custom. Which I have both Bikes and will be kept. Enjoyed your story.
It's so good to Hear such a love story between man and machine it's like its his best friend? It dosnt matter what it is?.. the one that got away from me was my 1971 honda cd 175 i bought it because it was the closest thing that I could afford that looked like a cb450 black bomber I even painted it black and silver
Great story... OUTSTANDING survivor !
WOW, great story, I had a 250 Scrambler and a 305 super hawk , you did what i could not, thank you
Funny but sad story…about 1969 , I bought a 305 super hawk with a Yetman road racing frame and a 250 scrambler from the same person. I put the 305 engine in the 250 frame and raced it as a flat track bike. I sold the 250 engine for 25 bucks and threw away the racing frame…gosh , I was so stupid.