Indeed ... the Honda 750 four was financed off the back of untold millons of Honda 50 step-throughs putting Asia on wheels ... whereas in the same time frame the more affluent UK population was abandoning day to day 2 wheelers in favour of minis and A40s ... leaving our motorcycle manufacturers financing their premiun bike development off the inevitably limited income from selling premium bikes ... not hard to see which way that was going. Cars are going the same way.

K