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里帰りしたCR93(CR93 History) |
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Honda CR93 benly racing introduce to a photograph is a production racer released
in September, 1962. And, completion of Suzuka Circuit and the No. 1 Japan Grand Prix, CR110 was released the three three months before, too. This CR93 was produced for a clubman with high performance at the same level as a GP machine, And, in 1962, two RC145 the first place and the second place, CR93 in the third place in the British Isle of Man TT race. This CR93 maximum speed 135km/h in 21.5ps, 13,500rpm, five speed missions with DOHC 125cc and two cylinders(catalog data). Production began in June, 1962, and total output of CR93 was 252 of them and a few production. My CR 93 was assembled by Bill Smith from Chester in British, and this CR93 was produced with engine number 194, fram number 182 at the time in middle of 1963 and it was October that CR93 arrived at Liverpool at Chester close to British manchester by ship. (I count production day of CR93 backward than an engine number and guess.) So the seat, the front fender and the roundmeter were no original CR 93 parts. In 1963 at the grand prix in spain (not sure if it was in April) he sold it to Manfred Magnus from Austria. Bill Smith is well known in Engalnd, both as a Honda trader and as a rider of the Tourist Trophy at the Isle of Man during the 70 years of last century. Manfred Magnus was austrian Champion in the 125 cc class in 1963 as well as in 1964. On May the first 1964 he finished fifth at the international Austrian Grand Prix (which was no world championship race). It was the first Honda in its class to finish this race. It was M. Magnus who "tuned" the front brake, and he had a friend who was internationally well known in the race scene at that time for being a specialist in gearboxes. This man was named Michael Schafleitner. It was him, who built the six speed gearbox. Manfred Magnus finally sold the bike to Willi Stein from Mannheim. W. Stein was a somewhat strange personality, who took part in motorcycle races, but had been far more popular in the boxing scene (many women and plenty of money). It was him who assembled the changed camshafts and the "Fath" valve springs. These changes, along with the six speed gearbox, made the Honda a very, very fast bike at the time. On July the 19th 1964 he rode the bike at the Grand Prix of Germany (which was a championship race!) at the Solitude near Stuttgart, but he toppled and so didn't finish. Willi Stein sold the CR93 to a man named Kolk. He never have talked to this man, because he already had died, when he got hand on the CR93. In 1967 Kolk sold the bike to Helmut Schwarze in Bremerhaven. H. Schwarze was not a race rider himself, but had very contacts into the scene. He bought and sold many used race bikes. In 1974 Schwarze traded the CR93 for a Kawasaki Z 900 at a small Motorcycleshop. It was this very shop, where he first saw the bike myself in summer 1974, and a friend of mine, named Hartmut Hoessler, purchased it there. The bike was complete and the engine running. Of course, we wanted try out everything, and on small sideroads we rode quite a bit with the CR93 about 150 kilometers distance. Naturally the bike didn't survive this rough treatment and went broke we were so young and didn't really know what we were doing. D.M-ller purchased the broken bike from H. Hoessler in 1979. It took until 1982 to get all the needed spare parts together, but that year the bike was running again. He didn't ride the CR much since then, and in 1993 he sold the bike to Japain. So I received this CR93 in May, 1993 and I took about 1 year and did restoration. I maintain this CR93 with great condition now. |
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