Honda CB750K5 Restoration by Royhall

[Deano400]

I think the orange looks good, then red then blue.

[MCTID]

Candy Antares Red was the first paint choice for my K4. It's actually a K6 colour, but I'm very pleased with how it turned out and I'd still choose Red again if I had to.

Not the original Valley Green mine came with but I really don't like that so it was a no brainer. Gold seems to be very popular on the early K's but the gold and orange options don't do much for me I'm afraid.

The blue is another favourite of mine............

[philward]

Candy Antares Red was the first paint choice for my K4. It's actually a K6 colour, but I'm very pleased with how it turned out and I'd still choose Red again if I had to.

Not the original Valley Green mine came with but I really don't like that so it was a no brainer. Gold seems to be very popular on the early K's but the gold and orange options don't do much for me I'm afraid.

The blue is another favourite of mine............

How is your K4 coming along Alan?

[Oddjob]

I like the blue Roy.

I've got a NOS side panel in Flake Sunrise Orange and in the flesh it's not as nice as I expected. The flakes seem quite large and reflect the thinking of the late 70s when lot of really paints appeared with huge flakes that made the paint look rough to the touch.

[Moorey]

  Just pulled away from the dock, next stop Liverpool.

  I would also go with Blue. Simply because you  see far more Orange,

[royhall]

I have been following this container all across the world on several ships. At no point has it been held up outside a port for more than 2 hours and that was in Morocco (yes a third world country). That is until it reached Britain where it has been sat in a holding area off Liverpool for nearly three days along with 23 other ships as they cannot berth in Liverpool. Why is it the British just don't appear to be able to get anything right, it's just not good enough. It's no wonder importers are complaining about the rise in costs of transporting a container, what must it cost to have a ship that size just hanging around for days. Proud to be British eh.

[Oddjob]

That's so the Scousers can rob it Roy, they prefer a stationary target.

[Laverdaroo]

Roy,
Avonmouth is the same and it's down to absences due to the dreaded lurgy, Covid. They're all running on skeleton crews and cant get the ships unloaded quick enough. My pals on the shovels down at Avonmouth and in his team there should be 14guys, today they had 7!!

[royhall]

I see your point Roo. I guess Britain is the only country in the world with Covid.

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[Laverdaroo]

It appears that's the case

[Moorey]

 Well it's docked now in Liverpool. No doubt the engineers would welcome the extra down time whilst at Anchor off Anglsey as systems would be available to them that normally aren't.

[royhall]

The big question now is how it gets to Barrow. My guess would be by road. OOOO it's so exciting.

[heli_madken]

Mine went through exactly the same process anchored off Anglesey etc, I think this is quite normal at the moment as the docks are surcharged. It then stayed for about a week on Liverpool docks due to a lack of container lorries. In the end Billy hired a haulage contractor to get the bikes off the docks by road to Barrow.

From there he was pretty quick getting the bike to me.

In all I ordered the bike on the 23rd October 2019 and it was delivered to me on the 17th January 2020 so near enough 3 months.

Oh and this is where I am up to at the moment with it -
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Another couple of weeks and I will have the engine running

[royhall]

The CBX is looking good. Too big a restoration for me though. Did you rebuild the engine.

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[heli_madken]

Thanks, the bike has only done 40k which is nothing for a CBX engine. It was evidently very well cared for and sounded mechanically brilliant when running if a little lumpy due to the usual carb service requirement so for now I am leaving it alone just completing a thorough cosmetic and running gear restoration. Also changing the colour to Candy Glory Red which I love.

Anyway apologies for hijacking your thread let us now how you get on with delivery, Ken