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So question is, are these forks a later version/some sort of different spec or what?
I've got an Italian K2 import, both legs have brakes bosses and are stamped 341 which is the later leg as fitted to the 550. The yoke pinch bolts are slightly bigger than the K1 and the headlight brackets have seperate indicator holes as well
I've got an Italian K2 import, both legs have brakes bosses and are stamped 341 which is the later leg as fitted to the 550.
The yoke pinch bolts are slightly bigger than the K1
The bike does seem to be a bitsa so I'm not at all surprised that the forks seem to be from either a 550 or a much later bike.
For instance, the seat/seat lock appears very early K1, even though serial numbers are K2. So either the bike was put together by Honda from left over parts or much more likely of course, parts have been replaced over the years by owners with mismatched items.
Well the Honda4Fun website got the master cylinder picture wrong, the K1 didn't have that fitted, it had the one which was labeled as the K0.
Oddjob, the paper CB500 CB500K1 Parts List (Nov. 1 1973) that includes the F4 page is on my desk and I'l study it some more. Touchturtle, great find, I'll check mine tomorrow. Talking about numbers, I seem to remember the original 4-4 exhausts that were on my bike (CB500K2 [ED] the model that shared many parts with the CB550K2 '76) when I bought it, did not have the middle number -323- on them, but... I could be wrong. Would one of you know? Not that it is important, but it would be nice to know my memory isn't so bad as I sometimes think it is.
Yeah they had 374 on them IIRC.Just looked and my parts book is dated 20 July 1976.
Not sure if I understood that statement re exhausts but my K2 4-4 pipes do have 323 in the number.Peter.