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Laverda Dave:
Welcome Craig. ANOTHER 400/4 owner, we do have good taste. Like you I bought my box of bits sight unseen on ebay although it was 90% there (plus the engine of a second bike) it was just the missing 10% that proved to be difficult!
My bike is also a F2 with a blue tank although my other F2 is yellow  :).

Rozabikes Tim:
Out to the garage tonight to my blue F / F2?? resto project for some detective work.... :o

Chris400F:

--- Quote from: Nurse Julie on January 25, 2017, 01:38:03 PM ---You and your cans of worms Chris  ;D ;D ;D. TBH, I have just been informed by him indoors, well him out in the workshop actually, that there is no definitive cut off point and it could be either / or.............so, that's me told then !!!!! ::) ::) ::)

--- End quote ---
I like worms Julie ....  :D :D

Here are some words on the different versions from the 400/4 History page on the DS web site. Looks like I picked up the engine number instead of the frame number in my first post on this.

"Confusion often arises over the two models that were produced. Earlier F models had a plain red or blue tank and side-panels running to frame number 1073399. The tanks only bore the words HONDA Super Sport, and the side-panel logo used a font wherein each character was represented by three parallel lines depicting 400FOUR. Up to frame number 1056883 F models had swing-arm mounted pillion footrests, but from then on the F models had the pillion footrests moved to frame-mounted brackets; it is often assumed that this feature only started with the F2 model but this is not the case. The F2 model commenced with frame number 1073400 and featured a new paint scheme: candy antares red or parakeet yellow. The new paintwork featured stripes on the tank and had a different, angular, font for the 400FOUR label on the side panels. The F1 model was not shipped to the United Kingdom or Europe and was a USA/Canade only model. It featured typically a plain yellow tank and black side-panels with the F-type early logo. Today it is not uncommon to see examples restored with F2-type paintwork but F-type logos on the side panels, or F-type early frames with F2-type paintwork."

Oh, and sorry for slightly hijacking your thread Craig. You'll find that sometimes happens on here!

Drew400:
Hi Craig,

Welcome from me too.

Mine was a dirty, oily old runner that I turned into a box of bits... and then put it back together again. But not until I'd made loads of mistakes and received much help from members of this forum.

It's a great place to learn.

Enjoy!

D.

Craig CB400:
Thanks for the warm welcome guys, no issues with the thread hijacking either, some interesting stuff there and proves I am still learning about the bike.

One of the key things for me which was decision made early on was not to rebuild but restore to try and keep the bike as original as humanly possible. Inevitably I have run into issues with this approach, but really wanted to keep the bike as it should be hence needing the full "nut and bolt" rebuild. As will be revealed however, that decision was not always as easy as it should have been and I did deviate from that approach, but for good reason.

Great to see so many other enthusiastic 400/4 owners as well, I feel pretty sure that I will be picking everyone's brains now the real fun has started, restoration and rebuilding

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