David Silver Museum

Our test machine came from The David Silver Honda Collection. For more than 30 years David Silver Spares has supplied many of us with parts for our classic Hondas and in that time David has been carefully restoring and rehoming landmark Hondas. Last year he finally opened his museum: it’s an impressive home to 150 models from Honda, covering the 1950s through to the 1990s. All of the major successes and failures of almost 70 years of Honda are here, from the Super Cub to the Honda Fireblade, including the likes of a sandcast CB750, an original Gold Wing and the mighty CBX1000Z. With 150 models to look at, you really need to treat yourself to a couple of hours wandering around. The machines in the collection itself have been housed strategically and thoughtfully with the visitor effectively going on a ‘grand tour’ of Honda and its machines from the earliest days. As well as the bikes themselves, you have informative displays, which include audio-visual units running historical videos – around the two-floor museum. You really get a flavour of each decade and the importance of each model as you follow the 100m or so of winding timeline as you travel through Honda’s history on two-wheels. So, if you want to visit perhaps the finest collection of Honda motorcycles outside of the Honda Collection Hall in Japan, head to Suffolk – you will not be disappointed.