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CB500/550 / CB500 F0 bits

« on: December 23, 2014, 09:11:05 AM »

I may shoot myself in the foot here but there is a CB500 F0 import from the states on our favourite auction site missing a speedo cable, centre stand, mirrors and indciators, would these parts be hard to obtain if one was to purchase the bike?

Currently at £999 but i do like the look.

Alan

CB500/550 / The year of the bike

« on: December 07, 2014, 01:38:18 PM »

So I have a 550F registered 27/09/1976 with the frame and engine numbers matching the V5 but the frame "should" start CB550F2 but actually starts CB550F1 and the V5 indicates it should be red.

Talk about confused.

Alan

CB500/550 / Original pictures

« on: December 03, 2014, 09:27:30 AM »

Where can i find definitive images and spec of a 1976 550F bike? I want to at least try to get one back to whatever colour and spec it would have been from the factory but when i google i get every bike of every colour.

Stuff like what indicators look like, brake lights, headlights, decals you kow the stuff.

Thanks
Alan

CB750 / Colour of bikes / years etc

« on: November 21, 2014, 09:51:05 AM »

I have been looking all around the usual places to find some sort of 750 which needs loving care and attention and which has not been used to a garage with carpet to sit on so i can please the wife and sit in said garage restoring something over the winter months, so i have been offered a 750 FB from 1982, not my first choice but i cant find anything else to play with, where can i find definitive information on such things as colours of paint, wheels etc from?

I would like to at least restore something back to what it was when it left the factory, or as close to.

Failing that anybody got something which would make an interesting project because that have to many other bikes to play with (here's hoping).

Alan

CB750 / 1978 CB750 enquiry

« on: October 23, 2014, 03:17:24 PM »

Afternoon.

I have been offered a 1978 CB750 at a reasonable cost, i quite fancy reliving my youth and rebuilding this over the winter, but i have a couple of questions, its a rubbish red and i reckon that year they wereCandy Red or Black, can anybody confirm this? ALso it has a Honda chrome badge in the middle between the front indicators and the Heads and Barrell's are black in colour when i thought they should be the natural alloy colour, would this be an import? how does one check its not?

Its the one in the picture to the left if anybody has any idea it looks ok.

Thanks and i am sure i will have more questions should i purchase it.

Alan