HONDA CB450 Super Sport (1973-1974) Specs, Performance & Photos

In 1974, the Japanese motorcycle manufacturer launched the Honda CB450 Super Sport, a standard motorcycle part of the CB series that had its debut in 1965 as the first big motorcycle produced by Honda and manufactured until 1974.

In its last year of production, the CB450 Super Sport model was fitted with standard features, such as wire-spoked wheels, a one-piece dual seat, a round headlight with a chromed ring, a wide handlebar, an analog instrument cluster, a chromed dual exhaust system with mufflers mounted on each side, and a blacked-out steel frame.

The bike was built around a tubular steel semi-duplex cradle frame with a single front down-tube, which housed a two-way damping adjustable fork on the front and two preload adjustable shock absorbers on the rear for optimum suspension performance.

For braking performance, the bike packed a single disc squeezed by a hydraulic caliper on the front wheel and a drum braking unit on the rear wheel that provided optimum stopping power.

As for the power performance, the 1974 Honda CB450 Super Sport took its muscles from a 444cc four-stroke parallel-twin air-cooled engine fed by two Keihin carburetors that helped deliver an output power of 45 hp with a peak at 9,000 rpm and 38 Nm (28 lb-ft) of torque available at 7,000 rpm.