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SOHC.co.uk Forums => CB750 => Topic started by: AshimotoK0 on October 18, 2014, 07:17:57 PM
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Just got back from Stafford thinking to myself why do I bother travelling 120 miles then queuing for the best part of an hour to get in. Then I walked past this stand, not far from DSS stand, with a few odd bits and pieces including an elusive NOS 18 x1.60 rim for my 250K0, at only 35 GBP but a Tagasako not DID.. which was a real shame . Asked the guy on the stand if he had a DID one expecting the usual 'no mate' reply but he said yes, I suppose you want one without the side script on it and just the little diamond pressing between the spokes !! ... Turns out he has a NOS one and sold it to me for 60GBP, which is a real bargain. Got talking to him and turns out he's from York and knows quite a few of my old Uni biker mates from York, which is not too far from me. He once owned the 1st original UK K0 bike but is building himself another one from all of the NOS parts he has massed together including a UK unregistered but stamped NOS frame from the first batch of 20 UK bikes (Oct '69 build). Turns out he bought the entire stock of a major dealer in the North, when the new owners decided to stop keeping spares. The dealer had evidently 'parted out' a brand new K0 straight out of the crate in 1970 because Honda had imported the bikes to the UK but there was not yet a reliable supply of spare parts set-up. I did once hear that a K0 had been parted out straight out of the crate and the engine went into a side car outfit.
Anyone else go to Stafford?
Saw a nice Candy Antares Red 400/4 F2 for 5k and a grey sloper CD175A (complete with standard pipes J reg- but a bit rough) for nearly 2k. Wow those 'slopers are commanding real money now!
Never seen a CB250K0 at any show, getting very rare now.
Cheers ... Ash
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Would have liked to have attended this Ash but kids / family commitments (as always) preluded a visit...sounds like you had fun...
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Just a bit to far for a day out, did go a few years ago now and had a stall,slept in the trailer forgot
sleeping bag and dam site colder than today had ice on the roof, oh younger days.
The guy who has the first uk k0 is a member of this forum, i will let him say who it is if he wants to.
Lovely bike and great for reference.
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Just a bit to far for a day out, did go a few years ago now and had a stall,slept in the trailer forgot
sleeping bag and dam site colder than today had ice on the roof, oh younger days.
The guy who has the first uk k0 is a member of this forum, i will let him say who it is if he wants to.
Lovely bike and great for reference.
Yes Mick knows him ! Dealer was Queens Park Motors in Salford .. got my 400/4 rims and stanchions etc. from them before they folded. Used to invent business trips to go to a subsidiary company owned by the organisation worked for at the time, close by to QPM, so that I could 'drop in' to buy their NOS sale parts. Nice people as I remember.
Cheers .. AshD
Cheers ... Ash
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made the short trek from Derby to Stafford,looking for a few bits to finish off my Phil Read Replica.as usual there was nothing there,but I did see a glorious CB175 which was my first bike and took me and an ex girlfriend on a camping holiday in north wales...
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I'm there tomorrow morning, anything else a must see Ash?.
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Is it open tomorrow?
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Nice one Ash was there much for sale sohc?Would love to go to it.
Cheers
Bitsa
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Is it open tomorrow?
You had me worried for a minute there James, yes its on tomorrow
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Sorry mark, just only saw sat listed on the print adverts I'd seen. Have fun...
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[attachimg=1][attachimg=2][attachimg=3][attachimg=4][attachimg=5]Yes open tomorrow .. Bonhams auctions.
Didn't seem much of our stuff to be honest, there never is. Dave Silver had a bargain bin evidently and some decent stuff but well picked over when I got there at his stand..
On-All-Fours grumpy sod there too and the man-with-no name who's always there near the DS stand selling NOS Honda bits Dave from Saisei there on the balcony bit if you want to drop by and have a chat, as I did. Yea saw that CB175 on the VJMC stand and an immaculate CB350K4 twin and a CB350/4 would like to see a K0,1,or K2 250 though. Also a K6 750 let down by allen bolts and what looked like powder coated engine. A Parakeet yellow 400/4 again with strange engine finish. But me being my picky self, they were nice bikes and obviously someone's pride and joy.
Cheers .. Ash
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A Customer of mine has a 73 US in the bonhams auction tomorrow, it is
original but by no means perfect and they have 4500-5000 i dont
think it will make it.
Anyone going tomorrow,i know its a ling shot but i don't suppose it was a gold cb175 DKL54K
still trying to locate my first bike.
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A Customer of mine has a 73 US in the bonhams auction tomorrow, it is
original but by no means perfect and they have 4500-5000 i dont
think it will make it.
Anyone going tomorrow,i know its a ling shot but i don't suppose it was a gold cb175 DKL54K
still trying to locate my first bike.
Last time I tried to look in the Bonhams auction this posh lady told me I could only look if I bought a 17 quid catalogue and that was a few years back.
SEE other post for pics .. someone else took the picture of the 'needs a little work ' CB175 ... I never saw it myself
Another VJMC stand bike
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More pix .. cheers AshD [attachimg=2][attachimg=3][attachimg=4]
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nice looking bikes there, plenty of inspiration.
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The Dresda is in the Bonhams auction today.
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I was working at QPM when they sold all the old NOS parts Ash. I bought quite a few parts for one of my 500s I was restoring at the time, they did have a NOS 500 frame but mine was fine so I didn't buy it.
I think the blue 500 Kwack was built by my mate from Queenies, if I'm right it has frame number 25 or something very close to that and the 350K4 looks to be the one that was still inside it's crate even in the middle 80s at Queenies, always wondered what happened to that when it shut
The guy I spoke to used to buy sold off NOS parts from Queens Park Motors, like me and then one day they told him they were selling up and if he wanted any more parts he would have to buy the entire stock, so he loaned some money and took everything. He reckons he found parts all over the place taken from the parted out CB750K0. Funnily enough my workmate who just turned up to do my tiling said he used to work for Bob Alport in Thorne and they regularly parted out new unregistered bikes because of the lead-time and cost of spares from Japan.
Cheers ... Ash
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Great posts ash.
I have given up going to these bike events,I am always dissapoint me and I would rather spend my time and money on a bike
Do you think I am missing out much
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Great posts ash.
I have given up going to these bike events,I am always dissapoint me and I would rather spend my time and money on a bike
Do you think I am missing out much
To be honest Pete that's exactly what I was feeling, till I met the guy with the rim. Also had a chat with ChrisR and David Silver and met David from Saisei. It's nice to meet personally sometimes but I reckon if I go again I will go Sunday, never remember such big queues to get in when I have been on the Sunday.
Cheers ... Ash
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Thanks Ash
Even if there were no parts for sale would have loved looking at all them bikes ;D ;D
Cheers
Bitsa
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Good show with lots of diverse interesting bikes, Ash, no point leaving it til Sunday next year. it was rammed by mid day!, I got there at 9 today and it was getting full by 10.30, had to leave at 12 due to people getting in my way!!, 3 hours was enough for me to be honest, not long enough to see everything but got my £13 worth.
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;) you got to lurv them candy colours i done that place to death since the early nineties i aint going anymore you could pick up some good gear in them days
i took the wife the daughter and her boyfriend one year i paid all the entrance fees and the fuel from south wales and didnt bat an eyelid
i dread to think what it would cost me now to see that empty field full of rust at todays prices thank god for fleabay and cheap supermarket lager good shopping from the arm chair who would have guessed 8)
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Evidently the price on this was 475 GBP