1978 500/4 engine parts prices

[SteveD CB500K0]

We had Rickman fairings Ken. We fancies the look of “no gaiters” as we didn’t have headlight ears anyway.

The second pair was for my room mate who had a yellow 750 F1.

Our local dealer in Brighton didn’t have any of these parts so we had to ride up to Lewisham to get them.


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[AshimotoK0]

In the Facebook post people sing the praises of Parks.

[Seabeowner]

Here are some scans from the DSS parts lists for CB500 from t Feb2003. It was tiny print so scans are a bit rough.
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[Oddjob]

My parts book has some prices written in it from when I was working at Queenies and checking prices, the price of a K1 seat back in the late 70s or possibly early 80s was £54.50, handlebars were £10.02, rings £3.79, gudgeon pin £1.21, camchain tensioner £14.34, blade £6.02, points £2.50, condenser £2.31, main shells £1.28, rod shells £1.44 to name just a few.

[Johnny4428]

Just 20 year ago £330 full exhaust system.😳

[AshimotoK0]

Here are some scans from the DSS parts lists for CB500 from t Feb2003. It was tiny print so scans are a bit rough.

DS MCN March 14th 1990

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[AshimotoK0]

1990  CB400F (loads more models on full page of MCN)

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[Sesman]

How much was beer and monkey nuts. 😁

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

I know Esso Golden was 19s 8p for 4 Gallons in 1964 as I worked on a petrol forecourt before the days of self-service pumps.

That's just under 25 new pence a gallon.(4s 11p)

[Seabeowner]

6s 8d when I first bought fuel in 1970. Three gallons a £1. According to the Mails inflation calculator £6.53 now, £1.44 per litre. In reality average pay has increased much more than inflation, so petrol is cheaper on the pocket now. And my car does 50MPG whereas the ones I owned in the 70s struggled to get 30.
Here's another couple examples of DS prices from 1995.
Exhausts £75 Ea + 17.5% VAT
Bad news: I bought this bike is 2003 and did a couple of thousand miles on it. Laid it up and did a short winter ride on it when we moved house and didn't look at it for 8 years. All had rusted through around where the headers join the silencers. They had done maybe 3000 miles. Could have got them patched up I suppose, but sold the on ebay for £300 in 2015 and bought a repro set the following year.
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[Johnny4428]

That’s interesting, I remember these hand written invoices, wish I had kept mine from the eighties.