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My other CB550s...

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Yoshi823:


This was my 550F1 commuter bike that I had before I had a company car. I went everywhere on this bike as it was comfortable, economical & handled reasonabley well. My brother-in-law even borrowed it one time to go on the Mayday Run & suprised many people by the way he rode around the outside of many other bigger bikes. It had my old 750F2 rear shocks on it, which raised the rear of the bike so's to give better ground clearance.



My 550F1 alongside the much modified 750F2.



This was when I had a strange rattle from the bottom end of the engine on the commuter F1. So I had the engine out, stripped off the bottom crankcase, looked at the big ends & mains which were all ok. So I popped the engine back into the frame & ran her up...no rattle. It wasn't the oil as I had tried that first before wanting to take the engine out of the frame. A mystery.

Yoshi823:
A bevy of Honda 550s...


At the front is my brother's CB550F2...he liked riding my 550 enough to go out & buy his own. I don't think that he liked the bellmouths much, as they let in rain too easily.
Behind is my commuter 550F1, with a friends CBX550FII behind that.

SteveD CB500K0:
This was the normal view of the road outside our house in Hove...

Yoshi823:
That looks like a Rickman Polaris fairing on that one on the left Steve...

SteveD CB500K0:
Yes.

Richard (550K3) was always a little less radical than the rest of us.

The red(ish) 750F1 on the right also had a Type 2 fairing - Nik always took it off when cleaning the bike...

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