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Title: The year of the bike
Post by: BigAlan 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

Title: Re: The year of the bike
Post by: hairygit on December 07, 2014, 02:08:03 PM

Could well be an F1, some were sold and registered quite a while after being made. Date of registration is not a reliable guide to exact model, frame and engine numbers are the defining factor of actual age

Title: Re: The year of the bike
Post by: Trigger on December 07, 2014, 02:22:00 PM

Quote from: BigAlan 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

If the VIN number starts with CB550F1...... it is a F1. The colour could of been changed on the V5. The V5 says date of registration 27/09/1976, it could of been sitting in a dealers for a couple of months and would of taken upto six months to arrive from Japan. This would estimate a build date of about the first couple of months in 1976. I would say that it is a F1. 

Title: Re: The year of the bike
Post by: BigAlan on December 07, 2014, 02:53:16 PM

Then most defiantly it's a F1 as that's what's all over it.

It has had a colour change as you can see the side panels have not been done well, red is not the original colour but in fact blue, so blue it will be.

Thanks
Alan

Title: Re: The year of the bike
Post by: hairygit on December 07, 2014, 03:06:12 PM

No, we can't see the colour change as you haven't posted a picture of it!:))

Title: Re: The year of the bike
Post by: Trigger on December 07, 2014, 03:24:52 PM

Forgot to mention that the chrome ears are different from the F1 to F2.

Title: Re: The year of the bike
Post by: BigAlan on December 07, 2014, 04:31:40 PM

Quote from: Trigger on December 07, 2014, 03:24:52 PM

Forgot to mention that the chrome ears are different from the F1 to F2.

Say what? Chrome ears? What on earth are they?

Alan

Title: Re: The year of the bike
Post by: Bitsa (Ralph Wright - RIP) on December 07, 2014, 04:35:53 PM

Headlight shell brackets
Bitsa

Title: Re: The year of the bike
Post by: BigAlan on December 07, 2014, 04:43:26 PM

Ah right, I need to check this, it's in one of the boxes of bits I have.

Alan

Title: Re: The year of the bike
Post by: Trigger on December 07, 2014, 06:11:58 PM

F1 ear's have gaiters so there is a rim for these to fit to. The F2 never had gaiters so, a different ear. And indicator stems.

Title: Re: The year of the bike
Post by: BigAlan on December 07, 2014, 06:44:21 PM

Quote from: Trigger on December 07, 2014, 06:11:58 PM

F1 ear's have gaiters so there is a rim for these to fit to. The F2 never had gaiters so, a different ear. And indicator stems.

Got them, defiantly a F1 then.

Alan

Title: Re: The year of the bike
Post by: Bitsa (Ralph Wright - RIP) on December 07, 2014, 06:53:18 PM

Sorted it now then? :D
Cheers
Bitsa