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A quick update on the Shiny Orange 550

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Orcade-Ian:
Thanks Bryan,
I'll ask Roo but as I say it's not going to cause any sleepless nights either way!  As long as it looks OK and the alternator charges the battery and powers the services, I'm happy.

Ian

Oddjob:
You are correct Ian, the F1 did come with the 500 genny cover. Never noticed that before, I was more interested in the F2 version as it was far prettier.  ;D ;D

Orcade-Ian:
Thanks Ken,
I'm new to 550s as you know and I often mix up arse and elbow (even though I worked in a Spinal Injuries Unit for 12 years!) it's great that there is such a wealth of sound knowledge on this Forum - long may it last!  As far as the F2 being prettier, I do agree about the burgundy with gold stripe like my mate's new one compared with one that's been Tangoed but I'm not going to change this to F2 spec.  Anyway I imagine that's rich coming from a Gold GL1500 SE owner (without any extra bling I might say!)

Ian

Sesman:

--- Quote from: Oddjob on November 23, 2022, 05:16:35 PM ---You are correct Ian, the F1 did come with the 500 genny cover. Never noticed that before, I was more interested in the F2 version as it was far prettier.  ;D ;D

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Oh yes and being an F2 it was by far the fastest.

Oddjob:
TBH Ian it was a real cosmetic change between the F1 and the F2 and it looked so much better for it. The F1 was looking it's age, bellows on forks was rather old fashioned by the time it came out. So the F2 got really nice paintwork, a nice contrasting stripe instead of the bland all one colour, lost the bellows so it showed the fork stanchions, of course this meant more damage to the forks but that's progress I suppose. The clocks were changed to blue rather than green, looked better at night. I seem to recall it also lost the front brace off the front mudguard, again more modern. IMO they should also have added a second disc but although all the mounting points were there they seem to have backed away from that idea, possibly because of the greater weight made the bike slower and it was in real competition with the GT550. Can't remember the Yamaha competition, possibly the XS500, which frankly was an awful model.

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