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Re: CB500 K1 Front wheel
« Reply #15 on: December 31, 2020, 04:26:52 PM »
Hi Bryan

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Re: CB500 K1 Front wheel
« Reply #16 on: December 31, 2020, 05:25:30 PM »
That is a 550 F / K3 top yoke and you can see that someone has drilled it out to take a 500 clock mounting bracket  :o
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Re: CB500 K1 Front wheel
« Reply #18 on: December 31, 2020, 05:42:28 PM »
Or MickWinf (on here) has reently posted that he has just got a spares stash for 500/550
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Offline Charlie J

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Re: CB500 K1 Front wheel
« Reply #19 on: December 31, 2020, 09:59:12 PM »
Oh oh. It doesn’t get any better. It seems I’ve got a real bitsa here. Bitsa 500, bitsa 550, bitsa 400, bitsa K1, bitsa K3 and lots of bitsa missing. Spent a fortune on the engine so far and have come to the conclusion that this is not going to be a concours restoration. Hopefully, I’ll just keep going and end up with something reliable and half presentable. Still enjoying it so far anyway.

Thanks for all the help.

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Re: CB500 K1 Front wheel
« Reply #20 on: January 01, 2021, 12:45:34 AM »
Yup that top yoke is wrong and that wheel from stratford i have bought from him and he is fair and good to deal with BUT you probably need the disc, speedo drive and spindle as well

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Re: CB500 K1 Front wheel
« Reply #21 on: January 01, 2021, 08:56:38 AM »
Is it me or do the forks look bent? It looks like the top yoke is bigger than the bottom and making one of the forks sit at an angle.

Probably got a front wheel around somewhere but whereabouts in Wales are you

I've just checked the dimensions of the top and bottom yoke and they are both the same size. It must be the camera angle making them look bent.

I'm located in LLanelli, Carmarthenshire

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Re: CB500 K1 Front wheel
« Reply #22 on: January 01, 2021, 09:38:16 AM »
i dont have a hub but do have an axle assembly with speedo drive etc if you need one.
Love the 500 and 550 have a 500 called Lazarus under restoration

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Re: CB500 K1 Front wheel
« Reply #23 on: January 01, 2021, 09:45:53 AM »
Thanks Mickwinf
I'll bear it in mind whilst I decide which way to go on this.

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Re: CB500 K1 Front wheel
« Reply #24 on: January 01, 2021, 04:21:27 PM »
Thanks Oddjob. I’ve just checked and everything seems to be straight and true. I think I’ll park the wheel problem for a while until I can get my head around what exactly it is I’ve got!

But just to add to the conundrum, does anyone have any idea what the bolts threaded into the top of the forks might be for? Somebody has gone to the trouble of cutting a thread in a blind hole to insert the bolts. I can’t think of any purpose they might serve.

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Re: CB500 K1 Front wheel
« Reply #25 on: January 01, 2021, 04:33:55 PM »
Those look like adjustable pre-load caps or they just made it easy to change fluid in the forks.
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Re: CB500 K1 Front wheel
« Reply #26 on: January 01, 2021, 05:19:18 PM »
Problem is the bolts are in blind holes so you couldn't get any fluid in through them!

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Re: CB500 K1 Front wheel
« Reply #27 on: January 01, 2021, 09:15:03 PM »
I did a conversion like that to thread an air valve into. Was experimenting with air assisted forks.

That could well be what the threaded holes were for but the job never got finished. Perhaps the PO didn’t have a long enough tap.

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Re: CB500 K1 Front wheel
« Reply #28 on: January 02, 2021, 08:05:34 AM »
But just to add to the conundrum, does anyone have any idea what the bolts threaded into the top of the forks might be for? Somebody has gone to the trouble of cutting a thread in a blind hole to insert the bolts. I can’t think of any purpose they might serve.

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Got some 2-piece sport handlebars/clip-ons that would fit there...
They clamp on the tube, "ears" at the top get bolted to the fork-caps...

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found them, took pics...

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Re: CB500 K1 Front wheel
« Reply #29 on: January 09, 2021, 03:59:55 PM »
Those look a bit like Dunstalls

 

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