It happened on October the 25 of the year 1968: the Honda CB 750 Four was presented on the Tokyo Motorshow. Even Soichiro Honda did not count on a mass demand - but with a "small amount of interested lovers".
Some days later he had to think about the meaning of the word "delivery time".
How enthusiastic the world welcomed this Superbike and how all test drivers were
searching a new vocabulary to describe the feeling, is really worth reading...
just as you've been there....