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MCTID:
I was fortunate to buy a surplus set of Refurbished Carbs for my 1974 CB750K4 from a Forum Member and after a bit of too-ing and fro-ing I sold the old set to the Dutch Refurbisher - Gerben van der Meer, so that he can breathe some life into them and they can live again.

The Refurbished Carbs are excellent, and I can thoroughly recommend Gerbens work, as well as his integrity......rare assets in the mind of a cynical old git like me.

As I had to do a bit of detective work to contact Gerben, I thought I should post this information to help other Forum Members.
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Please mention my service to other Honda CB Riders.
I am specialised in rebuilding carbs from CB350 /CB400 /CB500 /CB550 and CB750 FOUR and in case you have a friend who is in need of a total rebuild, please do not hesitate to contact me.
You may also share my email address to those guys, no problem.

Please mention:   gerbenhilly@hotmail.com  and I will be glad to answer all their questions.

Gerben van der Meer
Schothorststraat 9
1333ZE Almere Holland.

haynes66:
can you give us some idea of the cost, assuming he was sent all 4 carbs complete? thanks.

MCTID:
Well - sit down first - the refurbed carbs cost £380 which is what the Forum Member spent including P & P/ Insurance etc.

My old carbs got me £75 as Gerben had to replace a few parts which he doesn't usually have to cos they had suffered from old fuel/ gunge which had eaten some alloy parts away.

I was quoted £40 to £70 P & P to send my old carbs to Holland but Parcel2go did it for £25.

I am happy with the deal as I now have a reliable set which should prove trouble free....and if you check out the time, trouble and costs of finding, replacing and replating a load of fiddly bits, well worth the money.

haynes66:
many thanks. as you said, sounds reasonable enough.

royhall:
Just to clarify a few points that Alan (MCTID) made about Gerben's rebuilds. I am the forum member that sold the carbs on to Alan.

Gerben sells refurbished carb sets for the 750K on eBay for about £260 ( eBay name: gerben1956). These carbs are not a full refurbishment. The way Gerben works is that he fully strips the carbs and everything is polished and re-plated. The internals are only cleaned and refitted, replacing anything not right with mainly used parts. This is probably perfectly fine most of the time, but I was looking for the full job.

The carbs I had done at a total cost of £380 (including buying the carbs themselves and postage), were fully refurbished. All the internals were replaced with 4 Keyster kits (that I sent to Gerben) and all parts totally polished. They came back looking like jewellery and well worth the cost.

The reason I sold them on was that Alan is rebuilding a K4 and these were K4 carbs. I was intending buying a K series but that has now been overtaken with many other projects.

I would definitely recommend Gerbens work. Here's a couple of photo's of the carbs that don't really do justice to them, and one of Alan's engine that the carbs are going on that I rebuilt earlier this year. If you put the two together they are going to look really nice and should run like a new bike (hopefully). ;D


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