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kettle738:

Managed it!........the photo flatters the 400f quite a bit, there is plenty of surface rust......but it came with a NOS seat and what I thought for a while was a spare new engine....it turns out the engine has been in storage indoors since 1978 and it's marked to show it has covered 604 miles from new.....under the grime it does look it too.

I also brought this one home, a Bomber......I knew the owner many years ago.......when I last saw this bike it was probably 30 years back and it lived in his living room, it was near mint...but a few years in a damp garage have changed all that; it has just 2,700m from new (virtually nil 30 years ago) and is original right down to the tyres.

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Woodside:
Love those old bombers....

royhall:
Are you up for selling the bomber?

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AshimotoK0:
Yes ...sadly I have heard that all of   the pattern guards don't fit very well Mick. Amazing that they can get it so wrong.  I think you will find the chromers will do a good job on your original. It's rims & exhausts that some of them can't seem to master. I would think £70-> £100 for a nice job on re-chroming your rear guard. Among the papers with that bike were some old DS adverts cut from  MCM ..when he sold everything mega cheap ! References to 'The House of Wheels' in Leytonstone was also in there too ...that place certainly brings back memories for me.

Here are the carbs that were almost certainly off  Mick's mega low miler spare 400/4 engine originally . Just a half hour in my ultrasonic cleaner and they will be spiffing. ;D

Also the Bomber I got that was languishing  in the garden. Got quite a few spare  parts to go with it though inc. some solid  mudguards .. 'presentable ' original pipes, seat, tank, ect.

Star finds in the boxes and boxes and boxes  of rusty parts I got, which  I had a quick scan though  yesterday (CB450 Bomber, CB72/77, 250T  and G5)  were the missing 4 side panels with emblems (mega rare)  for the two CB250K0's I got (4.5k miles and 6k miles & my original reason for going there) plus  a pristine set of Varnish Blue side panels that will go nice with the lovely tank that 'Boggieman' on here kindly sold to me for my 400/4

Everything is stored at my mates warehouse ... he's a rough diamond geezer but his enthusiasm is second to none and a true 'mate'.

Yes lovely young guy we were dealing with .....  an absolute gentleman ....  I told him to get himself out of the 'smoke' and move to the City of Culture 2017. Sadly I don't quite think I convinced him  ;D

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Chris400F:
The chap certainly had quite a selection of bombers!
I remember the one I had, a 1966 bike I owned in the late 1970's.
In those days I managed to pick up a new speedo/tacho and a cylinder head for very little money. But as a poor student that bike sadly had to go.

Ash, have you found many G5 bits (as well as the complete bike)?
I take it this is why you were looking for the Parts List?
The blue bike looks pretty complete to me. Are you smitten with it yet?

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