I agree with you about the 750 Honda now.I did a licence refresher course and the only thing they had I could ride with my broken knee was a 750 Aero.It was rubbish,gutless, and wallowed like a whale.It was NOT fun riding through cones doing figure of eights while everyone else used easy to throw around 400cc bikes [suzukis?] but back in the day even all the welded on Brit.bike riders like myself had to go Jap.The Honda four was a revelation.The 650 Yamaha took all the problems of the British.650s and fixed them.
The Jap handling wasn't great but reliability was.I put more trouble free miles on that 650 Yamaha than any other bike I owned until the 2007 America i have now,and treated the bike worse than any other I'd owned.
Don't forget I LOVE Triumph.So it pains me to say it but back in the 1970s the Japs had the goods.
Anyway God bless Saint John [Bloor]for resurrecting Triumph.
P.S. I'm 63.I just look like I'm 70
Been riding since I was 17 on the road.Had a stripped down BSA bantam when I was 12 for "bush bashing" so it sounds like we came up learning to ride the same way but different times.
