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Help needed to identify my CB500-4
B11sey:
Last run in ‘87 Ted
B11sey:
I think the engine number dates it before the gearbox mods. Was wondering if Honda stopped shipping to the USA after the lawsuit and send the remaining pre-mod bikes to the UK? No evidence for this but it may explain the anomalies.
Oddjob:
No, the K0 never officially came to the UK, they'd have shipped them to Europe instead, which is where yours has come from I reckon.
According to the head mechanic at Honda, who I asked about the 500 when at a training course in the late 70s approx only 3 were officially imported by HondaUK, these were gold, black and brown. One was written off whilst being test ridden by a magazine, the general consensus was it was the black one IIRC, the gold disappeared and the brown was sold to an employee who later scrapped it.
B11sey:
So probably a European bike that had the tank re-sprayed to suit its first owner I guess.
Is there anything to differentiate European and UK bikes?
Nurse Julie:
This is what it should look like.
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