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So what model IS my 500/4

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t_revs:
Hi Steve
Well I may very well have sold you that bike as I worked there in sales from when it opened -I think 1977 till about 1982.
The owner was Mike Harrington and I remember I worked with a guy called John #@%$ - who died last November
from bowel cancer I have just found out.

Anyway from further research on the CMSNL.com website there was a CB500K3 FOUR (EUROPEAN DIRECT SALES)
which has the center lock and idiot lights - I guess towards the end of the CB500 life they had to raid the parts bin.

Did you do the restoration on the bike in the pic - By the way how much did you get for that beautiful mint 550/K3?

Cheers
T_revs
 

Bryanj:
The 500K3 was a 550K3 with 500 barrels not a 500 with 550 clocks if that makes sense.

The clutch differences are that all the UK 500 had the clutch cable go to an operating mechanism in the sprocket cover and opperate a pushrod whilst the K3 types (and all 550) the cable went to the clutch cover and operated an external arm----that make sense too?

SteveD CB500K0:
I sold the restored K3 to John Elms in Oxsted for

fazer1k:

--- Quote from: t_revs on January 06, 2011, 01:27:01 PM ---Hi Steve
Well I may very well have sold you that bike as I worked there in sales from when it opened -I think 1977 till about 1982.
The owner was Mike Harrington and I remember I worked with a guy called John #@%$ - who died last November
from bowel cancer I have just found out.

Anyway from further research on the CMSNL.com website there was a CB500K3 FOUR (EUROPEAN DIRECT SALES)
which has the center lock and idiot lights - I guess towards the end of the CB500 life they had to raid the parts bin.

Did you do the restoration on the bike in the pic - By the way how much did you get for that beautiful mint 550/K3?

Cheers
T_revs
 

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I bought a brand new CB550K3 around March 1979 from HGB for

t_revs:
Fazer1K
Do you know I can vaguely remember 2 550's being sold at the same time - small world - and we're still alive,
for the time being.

Bryanj
Thanks for that... of course it all makes sense know. I wondered why Honda would move the clutch mechanism on the later CB500 as it would have been an expensive procedure for just a tad more reliability. I guess they were keeping the CB500 going for a little longer while using CB550 parts. I have noticed that the top yoke is also different to take the ignition lock. Any idea what else is different? The bike I have got does not have the chrome trim round the bottom of the tank, but it might have fell off I suppose. I presume the carbs and cam would be the same as a CB500K2?

Steve
Yeah small world.

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