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My other CB550s...

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Yoshi823:
This was my first big bike after the CB125s...


I bought it from Parks of Lewisham in 1978 & I loved it...apart from the rubbish headlamp unit. I managed to find a car sealed beam halogen unit that slotted straight into the standard chrome mounting & was shallow enough to be able to fit the headlamp shell. I sold the rack to a friend who needed it as I thought that it spoilt the lines of the bike.
Unfortunately the bike was stolen from outside of my flat in Bromley in Feb 1979. The next bike was the 750F2, but it wasn't until I started to ride the 750 harder that I found out how good a bike it was. I had enjoyed the orange 550F1 so much that I was almost prepared to swap the bigger bike for a smaller bike. I managed to find another orange 550F1 in a bike shop in Beckenham, but when I approached the owner of the shop about a deal, he said that he would only take the 750F2 in part exchange against the 550F1...he wanted another

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