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Hello from the Inner Hebrides
« on: July 18, 2023, 12:16:30 PM »
Hi Folks

I live on one of the islands and own two single cam Honda Fours. I started out with a CB500Four in 1977,Candy gold, that was a lovely bike and I did 20,000 miles on her.

I now own a CB750K4 1974 and a CB550K3 1978 both of which I have restored. I restored the K3 in 1990 and the K4 in 1998, I love both and they are both keepers.

I've just bought an American import CB750K7 which i'm going to get running over August and then strip in down in winter 2024. Its quite clean and the PO did a bit to it including the paintwork so its not a major job. It has just 10,500 miles on it . I'll start a thread when i'm doing it

Kind regards

Shuggie ( Hubert)
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Re: Hello from the Inner Hebrides
« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2023, 12:44:39 PM »
Hi HE
Nice bikes and welcome here!  ;D
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Re: Hello from the Inner Hebrides
« Reply #2 on: July 18, 2023, 12:45:53 PM »
Welcome to the forum a tidy looking bike already.
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Re: Hello from the Inner Hebrides
« Reply #3 on: July 18, 2023, 01:45:25 PM »
Welcome very tidy looking bikes.
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Re: Hello from the Inner Hebrides
« Reply #4 on: July 18, 2023, 03:26:06 PM »
Hi Huw,
Glad you found us eventually - they are a very knowledgeable and friendly bunch here and like lots of picture progress when you get round to doing that.  Sorry I didn't get to meet up this year for a ride but hopefully there might be chances in future.

Will ring for another yarn when we get back,
Ian and Chris
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Re: Hello from the Inner Hebrides
« Reply #5 on: July 18, 2023, 03:51:25 PM »
Hi Shuggie, welcome aboard. Much knowledge on here, also good source for suppliers etc. You’ve got the same bikes as me! Except my 750 is a K3.
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Re: Hello from the Inner Hebrides
« Reply #6 on: July 18, 2023, 04:54:25 PM »
Welcome. 🙂
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Re: Hello from the Inner Hebrides
« Reply #7 on: July 18, 2023, 06:32:19 PM »
Thanks very much for your welcome, I'm looking forward to hanging out on the forum and swapping notes with you guys 😁
I'll post a pic of the K7 shortly.

Cheers Shuggie
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Re: Hello from the Inner Hebrides
« Reply #8 on: July 18, 2023, 06:35:50 PM »
Welcome to the forum.
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Re: Hello from the Inner Hebrides
« Reply #9 on: July 18, 2023, 06:53:41 PM »
Quote from: Orcade-Ian on July 18, 2023, 03:26:06 PM
Hi Huw,
Glad you found us eventually - they are a very knowledgeable and friendly bunch here and like lots of picture progress when you get round to doing that.  Sorry I didn't get to meet up this year for a ride but hopefully there might be chances in future.

Will ring for another yarn when we get back,
Ian and Chris

Hi Ian 👋 thanks for pointing me in the right direction of the forum, it looks to be a hive of activity , have a nice trip, I'm doing a 200 miler tomorrow on the cb1100sf to Shiel Bridge on the Skye road.

To everyone else, cheers have fun fettling atb 😃👍
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Re: Hello from the Inner Hebrides
« Reply #10 on: July 18, 2023, 07:08:02 PM »
Welcome to the mad world of the SOHC  ;)
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Re: Hello from the Inner Hebrides
« Reply #11 on: July 18, 2023, 10:15:44 PM »
Hi and welcome, cracking bikes


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Re: Hello from the Inner Hebrides
« Reply #12 on: July 18, 2023, 11:25:30 PM »
Hope you don’t mind me saying Shuggie, your throttle cables routing on the 750 could be improved on. Also make sure that top yoke pinch bolt spacer washers are fitted. Not sure by the photo if they are there or not.
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Re: Hello from the Inner Hebrides
« Reply #13 on: July 19, 2023, 09:17:17 AM »
Welcome to the forum - nice bikes
Johnny - I'm sure that the 750 experts on here have said that the top yoke spacers were only fitted up to the certain models (K2)?
Sure someone will confirm

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Re: Hello from the Inner Hebrides
« Reply #14 on: July 19, 2023, 09:32:17 AM »
Welcome Shuggie. One day, I'll get to your part of the UK on a bike!....
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