This was a 1970 Honda CR750 that I worked on
that was raced in various vintage racing series’, namely AHRMA & AMA throughout
the 80’s & early 90’s. The CR750 was based on the venerable 1969 Honda CB750.Honda
distributed a few of these precious factory racers, all of which were highly
sought after at the time, moreso today. This bike originally had a 4 into 2
into 4 exhaust but in the 80’s, most had switched over to a typical 4 into 2
into 1 exhaust. Today, the original 4 into 2 into 4 pipes are nearly extinct
as most were destroyed by the time the late 1970’s came. Today, most of these
bikes that you will find running around DO have a 4-2-4 exhaust, but very few
are the original pipes & most are carefully reproduced. Either style megaphone
exhaust on these bikes were VERY loud. I could write for days on the time I
spent preparing this bike till all hours of the night to go racing. It was tough,
yet rewarding.

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This photo of myself (left) & multi time AMA Roadrace champion
James Adamo in 1990 at the Holiday Inn in Daytona beach Florida, just across
from the speedway. We had a problem with the cylinder bores that day & at
night, we had to change them out for new ones. This was taken just as we were
buttoning it up around midnight. Jim wouldn’t let me do any silly photography
until we were sure we were going to be able to race the next day. We were at
the track at 7am the next day. We re-installed the engine & were back racing
@ 10:30 am.

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This is a photo taken just prior to the 1992
Daytona 200 Superbike race with rider James Adamo. I was the crew chief for
the Gio Ca Moto team at the time. It was comprised 3 riders & many bikes,
“only” 2 of which I was responsible for. This particular year was
the best finish Daytona finish ever for Jim. Finishing so high in the order
against the factory teams was the result of a few unqiue factors:

We ran the largest capacity fuel tank that was allowed, which enabled us to
do only 1 pit stop during which we added fuel & changed the rear tire only.
The Ducati was easy on tires, but to top it off, we ran the hardest compound
available from Michelin to be sure that we got the mileage out of it & Jim
made sure to be easy with the throttle, sometimes letting slower riders get
past knowing that he would surely pass them back as they pitted a 2nd or 3rd
time.

This is yet another series of bikes I lost plenty of sleep over preparing for
races all over the country. There were 2 bikes that I worked on. One was the
Superbike in the photo, one was what was known as a “Pro Twins” bike
that was used to compete against only other bikes of the same engine configuration.
The configuration of the bikes were very different when I started working on
them in 1989, but due to rule changes, they were essentially the same by the
time 1993 came around.

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This is a photo of me with James Adamo’s Pro
Twins racer @ Mid Ohio Sports Car Course, circa 1992.

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This photo was taken by the renowned motorsports
photo journalist, John Flory. John was able to capture me in all of my glory
during an engine swap on the Ducati Superbike. This photo depicts me in my post
chicken pox state as well as the longest mullet I ever had. This is the most
difficult to show photo you will find on my site, but I feel it captures some
real action & the non-stop life of a race tuner that I lived in those days.

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