"Street Bikes of the 70's"

At 17 I bought my first brand new bike it was a 76 Honda CB 400F, It cost $1490 don't know if that one is in it, but it came with low euro style bars 6 speed gearbox and pegs that were set back just a bit. I ended up doing all the bolt on mods I could do, the bike was such a nice bike to learn how to ride. I loved the sound with it's Kerker pipe and K&N air filters, I also put a Dyna coils and electronic ignition. It really did handle well for a bike of it's time, I still see them now with the younger crowd and their retro bikes. Maybe I can find a picture of it.
 
Hope you are not disappointed as I was. If you subscribe to the magazine you will quickly realize that it is a collection of articles that have already appeared in the regular magazine, some fairly recently. It's a great deal if you are not a subscriber but feels like a bit of a rip off if you are due to the recycling.
 
I paged through it at the grocery newsstand. I'm not a subscriber, but will normally pay cover price for an issue that interests me. This special edition was not worth that IMO. Street bikes of the 70's should include:

Norton Commando Roadster of course (not the JPN)
Triumph Bonneville (not the oil-in-frame model)
Triumph Trident and/or BSA Rocket-3 (please not the ugly breadloaf tanks and Buck Rogers pipes)
BSA twin-carb 650 (any model, I liked the Firebird Scramblers)
Harley Sportster ironhead
Honda 750K-4
Honda 350
Kawaski 500 Mach I
Kawasaki Z-1 900
Suzuki X-6 Hustler
Yamaha DT (any model)

There are others, no doubt, but these are the street bikes most people were riding back then. Fortunately, I still have enough intact brain cells to remember.
 
No guzzi's or Laverda's - seems a very incomplete list, quite a bit of "ordinary".
 
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