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SOHC.co.uk Forums => CB500/550 => Topic started by: AshimotoK0 on December 19, 2023, 09:56:44 PM
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Copied this off Facebook. 8% VAT then
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Blimey 🧐🧐🧐🧐
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If only!😳. Interesting Ash.
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I will have 10 of everything at that price!
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What’s interesting to me is the way some parts have become a lot more expensive than other parts.
The camchain tensioner 14500-323-00 cost £5.83, that’s the complete tensioner btw, now it costs around £174, yet the camchain itself is more expensive at £7.06 yet that is around £65 and around £30 for the same chain not in a Honda bag.
Most likely the prices now reflect how scarce certain parts are now.
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That’s my 1978 engine rebuild.
Where did you get that Ash? I’m not on Facebook.
I’ve probably posted it on here at some time in the past 16 years.
I think there were two pages though.
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Plus,
When I was at Uni, £46 was five weeks money.
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That’s my 1978 engine rebuild.
Where did you get that Ash? I’m not on Facebook.
I’ve probably posted it on here at some time in the past 16 years.
I think there were two pages though.
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Here is the culprit Steve. :D
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Equates to £265 in today's money.
I remember buying new CB400F handlebars from Peters of Hull in 1978 and they were £12.(£69 in todays money)
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Thats a six fold increase in cost - by contrast my income in 1987 compared to my income today as a pensioner has increased twelve fold so in reality its cheaper for me today than it was in 1987.
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That’s my 1978 engine rebuild.
Where did you get that Ash? I’m not on Facebook.
I’ve probably posted it on here at some time in the past 16 years.
I think there were two pages though.
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You obviously thrashed that bike Steve ;) :D
I was on £24/week as a 1st year apprentice coach trimmer back then, £42 was an arm and a leg!
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I was a student Dave.
£10 a week was what we had.
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Ash.
He’s pinched that from my Blog.
Without attribution…
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What's odd is that whoever was buying these parts clearly had a 500-4, not a 550-4. But he also bought 4 dust covers for the top of the fork sliders, the 500 didn't have them fitted, the 550 did and even then only had 2 of them, yet they bought 4.
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What's odd is that whoever was buying these parts clearly had a 500-4, not a 550-4. But he also bought 4 dust covers for the top of the fork sliders, the 500 didn't have them fitted, the 550 did and even then only had 2 of them, yet they bought 4.
It was actually our own SteveD's invoice Ken .... posted by somebody else on Facebook. ;D
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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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In the Facebook post people sing the praises of Parks.
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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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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.
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Just 20 year ago £330 full exhaust system.😳
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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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1990 CB400F (loads more models on full page of MCN)
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How much was beer and monkey nuts. 😁
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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)
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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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That’s interesting, I remember these hand written invoices, wish I had kept mine from the eighties.