Thank you Gerard for some amazing personal pictures from "back in the day." Who is Tom Philips? The CB750 really was a "milestone motorcycle." Not only was the CB750 elegantly well executed in aesthetics, it was well engineered and to top that off manufactured by a country that had atomic bombs dropped on two of its major cities barely 24 years earlier. Honda accomplished what had been tried since FN began in 1905 - produce an attractive, affordable 4 cylinder motorcycle that was reliable and requiring minimum maintenance. Up until the expensive MV Agusta's 600 Tourer became available for retail purchase in 1966, the design and technological challenges of putting the idea of a transverse 4 into a large production numbers was impractical and thereby unaffordable to the retail buying public. Honda created then what we take for granted now.