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CB500/550 / WANTED: cb500/4 float bowl
« on: September 14, 2011, 08:31:26 PM »
if anybody has one for sale please let me know.

thanks.

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Misc / Open / Need these forks identifying please.
« on: August 31, 2011, 07:38:40 PM »
OK tried the site on the side of the pond, no good, so let's see if us in blighty can do the do?

35mm stanchions, 32" length (from memory) and inverted allen top cap, dual disc.  Been told that they are CB750/900, then someone else said that they can't be as the 750 and 900s had air assisted forks and because the caliper brackets are quite low that they are more likely to be a CB400N?

thanks in advance  ;)






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Misc / Open / What is it with the SOHC US forum?
« on: August 29, 2011, 10:17:45 PM »
I gotta have a moan, I am a member on various bike forums and enjoy the banter and wealth of knowledge that is shared etc, when I decided to build and customise a CB500/4 I thought that the SOHC forum would be the place for anything and everything that I needed answering.  However, it seems no one can be bothered to reply to any posts, yes a couple have been answered and maybe I am being a bit sensitive but when you have so many so-called experts with over 10K posts you would have thought that one of them could have been kind enough to reply  ::)  I mean you can go back every few hours and there are literally 2-3 pages of new replies!  Now don't get me wrong its an open forum with various topics, but 'A pic of you and your bike next to?' and 'What car does a SOHC member drive' is not my bag, yes I can not bother looking at these threads but sometimes I need answers and the place that is all things Honda kinda doesn't deliver  :(

When I am in a position to offer any help on a subject I reply as I am aware that the poster has gone to the trouble of putting up a question h/she must be pretty desperate for an answer, especially if it is bike related.  I'm pretty disappointed with the forum, maybe its because I'm a 'noobie'  ::) or maybe if I was keeping the bike original or cafe'ing it then I would get a host of replies but on my experience with the forum it seems pretty crap.

Maybe i'm blowing of steam and don't mean to annoy or upset anyone - but the phrase 'You meet the nicest people on a Honda' kinda doesn't cut it with SOHC US.

Just my pissed off thoughts this evening, maybe I'll feel different tomorrow?

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Recommended Sources for Parts and Services / Sourcing parts.
« on: August 28, 2011, 09:42:08 AM »
Out of curiosity, has Davis Silver got the monopoly on all Honda spares when it comes to all the sohc stuff?  I have searched the net for spares etc and mostly it comes up with dealers in the US and nothing really from the UK?

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New Member Introductions / Newbie from the East Midlands checking in and doing the do...
« on: July 11, 2011, 08:32:53 PM »
Hey to you all, my name's Mark and i'm from Leicester.  This is my 3rd bike build in the past 3 years.  The last two builds have been a 92 Royal Enfield 500 chopper and last year I finished a 9ft Harley Sporty 1200.  I picked up a basket case Cb500/4 from one of the members 2 weeks ago and already  started to make progress on her.  She will be a brat style bike (I know I know to the purists) but when I got her she already had the rear frame rails chopped and to be honest not much came with the project so it lends itself to a brat style bike.

I scoured the site for a while and in the past when I was trying to get me hands on a 750 but that fell through  :o  Hope to meet some good folk on here and pick your brains as all mine have feel out  ;D

cheers for now

(ps...didn't realise that there was a UK SOHC owners club) so the introduction is copied from the US one  ;D)

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