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SOHC.co.uk Forums => CB750 => Topic started by: Seamus on April 26, 2010, 10:08:22 AM
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When did Honda introduce the green faced instruments? My K1 has the dark face and I believe K2's did as well. Was it only the F series that had them?
Cheers
Seamus
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Have a look here.
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=6961.0
Cheers
Den
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;D
That's the thread I started to try and get an answer to a similar question. Quite a good response.
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Thanks for the link. I could not find that one on the US site, although I recall seeing some pictures of gauges in a restoration area.
I now know what I am looking for.
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The green glow is lovely at dusk....... ;D ;D ;D ;)
My mate has got an F2 & his are black faced & I would'nt swap 8)
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The UK K6 have a green back ground, all the others K0 to K5 have a dark blue back ground. Later models K4 onwards have speedometer at 10mph increments
Alan
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Thanks folks. A bit more info is always useful
regards
Seamus
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The green glow is lovely at dusk....... ;D ;D ;D ;)
My mate has got an F2 & his are black faced & I would'nt swap 8)
I'm sure that my F2 clocks were a dark green...but then it has been a few years now.
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CMS Have no F2 speedo's in stock, but their Site has a picture of the face of the F2 clock....& it's black....like my pals......pheww......it's bl**dy hot today with this anorak on....... ::) 8)
He tells me it's so his "clocks" can indicate the fact that his bike goes faster :-X but I don't care ;)
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If his clocks were tuned like that they would be red-----or why bother to paint fire engines red
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Red is the fastest colour (sorry, this is a bit of an in-joke on the Sprint site...)
(http://www.nirvana-motorcycles.com/images/Triumph%20Sprint%20ST%20955i%20%28Small%29.JPG)
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CMS Have no F2 speedo's in stock, but their Site has a picture of the face of the F2 clock....& it's black....like my pals......pheww......it's bl**dy hot today with this anorak on....... ::) 8)
He tells me it's so his "clocks" can indicate the fact that his bike goes faster :-X but I don't care ;)
I've had a quick search through my Honda 750F2 photos & the clocks are definitely dark green...
(http://i666.photobucket.com/albums/vv23/WiNot_Rhencullen/My750082.jpg)
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Yer, but, it's hardly standard is it ;) ;D :o
I reckon someone was just beguiled by the eerie 'glow' 8) 8) 8)
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My F2 has Green clocks this was taken a few days ago.
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Ok....but in the 'green' stakes.....surely, there is green :-* & then there is
(http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g305/comic_muse/Green.jpg)
green :D ;D ;) un-enhanced in the back of the dark garage..... bask in the glow....are they fluo 8).....pity about the faded red :-\ but it all adds to the originality ::)
They are different though - not better, nor worse, but different. No KMH's on my faces....I wonder if different markets had different clocks ? There were a lot of different market versions of F1's & F2's.
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My F2 has green clocks too
(http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y149/PaulG80/CB750/P2270018.jpg)
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My F2 has green clocks too
(http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y149/PaulG80/CB750/P2270018.jpg)
(http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g305/comic_muse/Green.jpg)
Well, far be it for me to cause any consternation....but these, reputedly "green" F2 clocks...look just like the CMS ones ......& like the ones on my mates F2......& compared to the F1 ones....whilst they may have a green'ish hue,.....when lit.....the F1 ones "glow" green....really green, like a gaudy but spectacular neon light green....alien almost in it's intensity ;).....but the F2 ones - at least on his bike - don't, so are we on the same page here when defining green clocks or simply confusing the issue. If that "green" kmh marking on the F2 clock faces was on my faces you wouldn't see it because they are soooooooooo green 8)
Den (Spitfire) should know - he's got one of each, I think ? Definitely not the same clocks whichever.
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My 77 F2 (S) Has green clocks, but the green is so dark that at first look it appears to be blue, without looking I would have said that they were blue !
(http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z244/DennisMcc/Honda%20CB750F2/CB750F2CLOCKS002.jpg)
(http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z244/DennisMcc/Honda%20CB750F2/CB750F2CLOCKS003.jpg)
Cheers
Den
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Now I look at it again and they are blue, probably depends on the light.
Cheers
Den
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They're blue..... ;)
F1 ones are green 8)
Riding an F2 has been proven to make you colour blind...... ::) :o
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The hell with the colour!
All three tachs are different.
What was the red line?
Spitfire: 9500 - 10500 with markings to 12 (but no numeral)
Sprunghub: 8500 - 9500 with markings to 11
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.....the F2 Tacho faces are the same on all 3 bikes, I think....the F1's are different ? The F2 ones, with the higher 'red' line ( & the blue/black faces)........
(http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g305/comic_muse/Greenglow.jpg)