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Offline Scottish Badger

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Hi from Kinloss, in the North of Scotland
« on: November 01, 2022, 09:39:59 PM »
Hi all, just joined.

Bought myself a 1978 CB400F a few weeks ago, finally scratching a childhood itch from when I was a spotty youth in the very early 80's. It joins my ever-expanding collection, an original unmolested 1980 Honda XL500s, a fully restored 1981 XL185s (last year's restoration project) and a 1998 Triumph Thunderbird Sport 900.

The 400 ran rough on three, stripped and cleaned the carbs and re-balanced them, she now purrs nicely on all 4 but the no.4 needs to come apart again as it started to weep fuel through the overflow today - after being perfect for almost 2 weeks! Slowly working my way through a full end-to-end check-over and service, I've already trued up the back wheel, done an oil change, new plugs and HT caps, next task is to replace the rocker cover seal as it weeps when hot. I hope to run it next year whilst I rebuild a spare engine, then strip it this time next year and have the frame blasted and powdercoated, and probably repaint to Parakeet Yellow, as the current red is for an earlier F, not the F2.

The 400 is "XRH 302S" if anyone knows any history on it, it spent quite a few years around Central Scotland, two previous owners were in Larbert and Mid-Calder areas and another previous owner to that was down in the Hull area.

Cheers.
« Last Edit: November 02, 2022, 01:40:21 PM by Scottish Badger »
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Offline Nurse Julie

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Re: Hi from Kinloss, in the North of Scotland
« Reply #1 on: November 01, 2022, 09:45:50 PM »
Welcome to the forum.
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Re: Hi from Kinloss, in the North of Scotland
« Reply #2 on: November 01, 2022, 10:29:10 PM »
Welcome to the forum - nice collection of bikes you have there - hope you enjoy your new addition (and the forum!)
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Re: Hi from Kinloss, in the North of Scotland
« Reply #3 on: November 02, 2022, 12:30:10 AM »
Hi. Welcome to the forum Badger.  :D
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Re: Hi from Kinloss, in the North of Scotland
« Reply #4 on: November 02, 2022, 06:48:56 AM »
Surely that’d be a ‘98 900?
I guess they were pretty rare in the 80’s

Welcome by the way.

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Offline Johnny4428

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Re: Hi from Kinloss, in the North of Scotland
« Reply #5 on: November 02, 2022, 07:11:57 AM »
Hello and welcome to this great forum. Few members scattered around Scotland including two of us up here in Orkney.
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Re: Hi from Kinloss, in the North of Scotland
« Reply #6 on: November 02, 2022, 07:59:49 AM »
Welcome to the forum some nice bikes.
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Re: Hi from Kinloss, in the North of Scotland
« Reply #7 on: November 02, 2022, 08:06:55 AM »
Welcome, nice array of bikes you have there
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Re: Hi from Kinloss, in the North of Scotland
« Reply #8 on: November 02, 2022, 09:36:15 AM »
Hi and welcome to this wonderful forum from Orkney,
I think the Hull History Society have the registration records safely stored before DVLC came along - now DVLA.  They might be able to find the supplying dealer (Miles Kingsport or Hull Motorcycle centre) and possibly first owner.  You could also put a bit in Hull Daily Mail for info. Ash (Ashimoto) a regular contributor on here lives in the area - he might know something.

Nice collection of machines there - plenty of 400/4 owners on here - including me!

Ian
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Re: Hi from Kinloss, in the North of Scotland
« Reply #9 on: November 02, 2022, 09:52:18 AM »
Welcome....
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Re: Hi from Kinloss, in the North of Scotland
« Reply #10 on: November 02, 2022, 09:59:30 AM »
Welcome,  nice to see new 400 owners on the forum.
Nurse Julie's 400 rebuild under the Projects section is an interesting read.
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Re: Hi from Kinloss, in the North of Scotland
« Reply #11 on: November 02, 2022, 01:43:05 PM »
Thanks folks, I've also corrected the typo spotted by Steve D, the TBS is indeed a '98, not '88!
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Re: Hi from Kinloss, in the North of Scotland
« Reply #12 on: November 02, 2022, 02:47:12 PM »
Welcome to the 400/4 forum😁. Lots of helpful people and knowledge on here .
If you paint your bike Parakeet yellow you will also get an extra 5mph out of it, yellow was the fastest colour😉.
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Re: Hi from Kinloss, in the North of Scotland
« Reply #13 on: November 02, 2022, 04:30:46 PM »
Welcome from someone who lives in Kinloss Drive but in the south, old RAF site built on and all roads named after RAF bases
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