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Honda 750 KO K1 which is which ??
KB 1971 CB750:
I have heared that the K0 model was a interim model, and only 36 came into the UK. The first model being simply a CB750......then the K0.....and then the K1.
Can anyone give any details on this one. I'm presently running a 1971 CB750, (early type sidepanels), and I have another 1971 CB750 in bits, but this has the later K1 sidepanels.
Cetrainly the like to the USA site does not record a K0, but it is possibly just a UK thing.
Any ideas??
Keith.
SteveD CB500K0:
Hi Keith and welcome. There's a fair bit of "spirited" discussion on this on www.sohc4.net/forums - you should join there as well (mostly N American but we'll let them off that). Try this one http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=28697.0
BryanJ is based in Gloucester and is a fount of all knowledge on these bikes. Look him up in the members section and post him a PM.
Steve (also of Nirvana)
Spitfire:
Had a 1970 K0, most of my friends at the time had the same bike, all greeny/blue colour, if there were only 36 in the UK we had cornered the market in our little town. Early large side covers, coloured airboxes and headlamp brackets (ears), headlamps and different exhausts, I remember taking the baffles out of my K1 and they were different to the K2, the K0 had a bar across whereas the K2 had more concentric rings. Plus the K0 had the high wide and handsome bars.
My bike was different in that it had the push pull cable carbs for some reason, it was originally registered in Ireland hence the strange registration number COI3922.
I next bought a new (in 1972) K2, larger tail light, black airbox, chrome headlamp brackets and smaller side covers. After that I bought a 1971 K1, small side covers, painted headlamp brackets and headlamp and smaller tail light (as per the K0). If anyone ever restored it they would be confused as I fitted K2 headlamp brackets, larger tail light and as many other K2 parts as I could afford, so don't be fooled by old photos !
The 2 attached photos show my K0, pretty standard and my K1, the white one, in front is a friends K1 which is more representative apart from the Dunstall 4-2 (Dragon rally 19 plonk).
Cheers
KB 1971 CB750:
Thanks for the replys guys, but I've just got hold of a book called "The Original Honda CB750 by John Wyatt. In there, he lists 3 separate early CB750's. The first one being a CB750 (no K or K0)
He then lists a KO, an interim model, only 121 made, and 36 coming to the UK, none to the USA.
Then the K1, with the black air box, instead of the colour matched one which cracked.
My frame number of 1044827 would put it in the KO section if the book is correct.
I think that in the USA, they naturally call the original CB750 a KO
Regards,
Keith.
SteveD CB500K0:
You're right.
Our friends over there can't handle the phrase "CB750" without a "K" bit on the end, so they tend to call the original 750 a "K0" to differentiate it from the K1
Forum threads go like this:
"Hi. I'm new. I need a .... for my CB750"
"Which model"
"It's a CB750"
"Yea but K-what?"
You get my drift?
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