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ffjmoore:
Let me introduce my self. My name is jason, and i live in California, USA. I own 3 old honda's. 1 CB750F, a CB550K and a CL125. I am building a cafe racer out of my CB550 and currently have somebody in the UK building a tank for me. They only have a bare cb500 frame to build the tank on. So its hard to know for sure how well the tank will fit. The only way to know the tank will not hit the forks or the coils would be to put it on somebody's bike. So if you live near where they are building my tank ( West Coast of Wales, Penuwch) and would be willing to let them test fit my tank on your bike for a few minutes i would be so grateful. If anybody is willing we can discuss compensation. Here is a picture of the tank so far, i cant wait for them to finish it!
Thanks
Jason

http://www.tabaker.co.uk/

matthewmosse:
I'm not so far from there (my parents lived there for a while), but my k3 is a pile of bits many of which are awol in a pile of other bikes in bits. I have a fully assembled 500/4 but it's immobile (Behind 15 tonnes of rock)  but accessable if they wanted to test fit it on that. Hopefully a better offer will come up. 500's and 550's are from the point of view of coils and forks / tank interactions basically the same as far as I know.

Bubbadel:
Many moons ago i put a 550k3 tank on my 500/4 with no mods needed at all

ffjmoore:
Yes, the frames are the same as far as the tank goes.

lordwhimsey:
That looks brilliant; I want one!

I'm afraid I live across the other side of the country but if there's someone who lives nearby please go and test fit the tank for this nice American gent... and take some photos!

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