Happy Birthday Soichiro Honda

[Busy Little Shop]

Gone in 91 but never forgotten Happy Birthday...

I live in Japan 79 to 81 courtesy of the USAF... I was wearing my
Mugen Tee shirt while spectating at Mt Fuji racetrack... Hirotoshi
Honda #1 son of Soichiro Honda and president of Mugen walked up and
introduced himself... Together we traveled back to Tokyo on the
Shinkansen... I summed up my life long love and admiration for his Dad
by saying "cut my wrist and it will bleed Honda red"... Hirotoshi was
so taken that he asked his Dad for a meeting but the answer was "Gomen
nasai" (I'm sorry) health issues...

 

[motomania2007]

Great story!

 

[ST Guy]

Excellent story!

Did you know that the ST1100 was the last bike Soichiro was personally involved with the design and production? It was his last child, so to speak.

 

[budman]

I have yet to own one of his children. However the first bike I ever rode was one.

Godspeed Soichiro :bday :rose

 

[Busy Little Shop]

Excellent story!

Did you know that the ST1100 was the last bike Soichiro was personally involved with the design and production? It was his last child, so to speak.

Thank you but according to my sources inside Honda his last child was his 1992 NR750 oval piston sport bike not a pedestrian street bike... Soichiro had sport in his blood not touring...

 

[dittoalex]

A CHP Incident birthday haiku:

Nov 19 2020 2:23PM [1] EXCERCISE BALL IN THE MIDDLE OF THE LN
Nov 19 2020 2:23PM [2] VEHS HITTING IT
Nov 19 2020 2:23PM [3] VEHS SWERVING AROUND

 

[RVFRick]

Happy Birthday Soichiro Honda, father of all the 10 motorcycles I have ever owned (and three cars)!

Happy coincidence I bought a Monkey on his birthday. :thumbdown arty