The 84-86 750 Nighthawk S was sold in Canada, (and perhaps other locations), but was kept out of the U.S. due to a high tariff imposed by the U.S. government on all foreign manufactured motorcycles exceeding 700cc's. Honda made a wise marketing move (they're good at that) to drop the engine size to 700cc (essentially a 750 engine with a slightly shorter stroke), rather than attempt to sell a standard UJM bike with an artificially high price. It turned out to be a wise move, and the 750S sold well. It's essentially a 700S with a 7% increase in engine size.


The Bike pictured at right is owned by Criag from Australia who emailed me with this photo and said: "I bought a '85 750S Nighthawk that was originally brought to Australia to evaluate for release. The project was dropped and rather than destroying the bike honda donated it to  a local tafe College. However on the occasion that they did this they stamped never to be registered on the headstock. So I have a bike that is complete except that all 4 indicator stalks were cracked. Only done 13,000 kms. Local registration branch wont register it with that stamp on it and also have no import papers because it was brought directly into country by Honda Australia." (March 2007)