Honda CB77 , atau Super Hawk , adalah sepeda motor kembar lurus 305 cc (18,6 cu in) yang
diproduksi dari tahun 1961 hingga 1967. Hari ini dikenang sebagai sepeda motor sport
pertama Honda . Ini adalah model penting dalam kemajuan Honda di pasar sepeda motor
Barat pada tahun 1960-an, [4] terkenal karena kecepatan dan tenaga serta keandalannya, dan
dianggap sebagai salah satu sepeda yang menetapkan standar sepeda motor modern.
Honda CB77
Pabrikan Honda
Penerus CB350
Karakteristik
CB77, dengan kapasitas hanya 305 cc, memiliki mesin yang relatif besar dibandingkan
dengan kebanyakan sepeda motor Jepang lainnya pada masa itu, meskipun performanya
mampu menyaingi sepeda motor yang jauh lebih besar dari negara lain. [5] Dengan cepat
membangun reputasi keandalan, dan dilengkapi dengan kemewahan seperti starter listrik. [3]
Mesin pada CB77 berbeda dengan versi C77 touring, karena pin engkol pada poros engkol
diberi jarak 180 derajat. Hal ini memiliki manfaat membuat mesin lebih halus pada putaran
yang lebih tinggi namun karena rangkaian pembakaran dari satu langkah tenaga mengikuti
langkah lainnya, nada mesin terdengar 'datar' dan 'putaran rendah'.
The CB77 was built on the experience Honda had gained in Grand Prix racing, and differed
greatly from previous models. It had a steel-tube frame instead of the pressed frames of
earlier Hondas,[5] and a telescopic front fork.[1] The parallel twin engine, the biggest then
available in a Honda, was an integral element of the bike's structure, providing stiffness in a
frame that had no downtube, and was capable of 9,000 rpm. It could propel the bike at over
100 mph; as fast as British parallel twins with higher displacements, and with great reliability.
Cycle World tested its average two-way top speed at 168.3 km/h (104.6 mph), and its 1⁄4 mi
(0.40 km) time at 16.8 seconds reaching 83 mph (134 km/h).[2]
In 2003 author Aaron Frank called it, "the first modern Japanese motorcycle... that
established the motorcycle that we still operate under now, more than 40 years later."[5]: 59
Related bikes
Honda also produced a lower-powered 247 cc (15.1 cu in) version called the CB72 Hawk,
which had a 54.0 mm (2.13 in) bore and 22 mm (0.87 in) carburetors but otherwise had the
same specifications as the CB77. In 1962, Honda introduced an off-road bike, the CL72 250
Scrambler, with the same engine as the Hawk but with a different, full-cradle frame with a
skid plate and other adjustments for off-road use. In 1965, the CL77 305 Scrambler appeared,
with the bigger engine of the Super Hawk but otherwise similar to the CL72.[5]
Roustabout
In the 1964 film Roustabout, Elvis Presley rode a CB77 Super Hawk, rather than the Harley-
Davidsons Presley would later be associated with, because Paramount Pictures wanted to
avoid motorcycles' outlaw image that had originated in media coverage of the 1947 Hollister
riot and the 1953 film The Wild One, especially given Presley's scandalous televised hip
gyrations.[5]: 42 [6] Honda had cultivated a nonthreatening, wholesome image with their "You
meet the nicest people on a Honda" advertising campaign, so the CB77 was ideal to make
Presley's film persona seem just rebellious enough, but not too much.[5]: 42 [6] The film,
coinciding with the 1964 Beach Boys song "Little Honda", was free publicity for Honda in the
early years of establishing their brand in America.[5]: 42
Zen and the Art of
Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert M. Pirsig rode a 1966 CB77 Super Hawk on the trip he made with his son and their
friends in 1968 on a two-month round trip from their home in St. Paul, Minnesota to
Petaluma, California, which became the basis for the 1974 novel Zen and the Art of
Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values.[3][7][8] The novel never mentions the make or
model of Pirsig's motorcycle,[9] but does discuss their companions', John and Sylvia
Sutherland's, new BMW, an R60/2.[10] The R60/2, prized for its place in motorcycle literature,
has changed hands and was regularly ridden.[6] Pirsig died in 2017, and in 2019, his wife
Wendy K. Pirsig donated the CB77 to the Smithsonian Institution.[11] The donation included
Pirsig's leather jacket and memorabilia from the 1968 trip, and some of his personal tools.[11]
References
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