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Chris400F:
Welcome Craig, from yet another 400 owner!
Good luck with the rebuild, as you will probably have already seen there is plenty of help and advice available here.
If blue is the original colour then the bike is an F, not an F2, but that's being pedantic!
If it is a UK bike then I believe F2 frame numbers start at 1096242 if that helps.
paul G:
--- Quote from: Chris400F on January 25, 2017, 09:31:06 AM ---Welcome Craig, from yet another 400 owner!
Good luck with the rebuild, as you will probably have already seen there is plenty of help and advice available here.
If blue is the original colour then the bike is an F, not an F2, but that's being pedantic!
If it is a UK bike then I believe F2 frame numbers start at 1096242 if that helps.
--- End quote ---
Rear footrests on the frame F2 !!
Nurse Julie:
Yep, I just looking at the photo and about to say the same Paul. Mine is an F2 and has footrests on the frame and not on the swinging arm, thank goodness!!. Whoever thought that was a good idea at Honda needs shoooooting ;D ;D
Chris400F:
Well, I hadn't planned to open a can of worms here but ....
Yes, it is true that the F2 had the pillion footrests on the frame but as far as I know this change was made part way through the production run of the earlier F version.
If you look at the Parts List there are actually three part numbers for the frame for UK bikes (area code E in the Parts List).
I don't know what the difference(s) is/were for the 'middle' number, but the final one was used on F and F2 models and I'm guessing that this was the one with the loops on the frame for the footrests.
And I'm pretty sure that for whatever reason all US bikes had the footrests on the swinging arm right to the end.
F2 models were distinguished by the Antares Red or Parakeet Yellow paintwork with stripes on the tank.
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Nurse Julie:
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 !!!!! ::) ::) ::)
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