Ted, the UK numbers dont follow the US system, ours were all, officially, K1 whilst they got K0, K1 and K2. Yes i know there are UK reg K0 but they apparently were grey imports from Europe, Honda GB insist the only ones officially here were the press bikes, i have compiled a list of vin to build dates using US Vin tags, i will find that and post it for you
Matches what I was told when attending Honda training courses. Only 3 CB500K0 were officially imported for press evaluation. One of each colour. A black, brown and a gold. The gold one was Starlight Gold not the Candy Gold custom which was the official gold for the UK. One got written off, rumour has it as the black one. One was crushed for some reason and the other was sold to a staff member. No one knows what colour that was but if it was me I’d have chosen the gold, not a fan of the brown colour. I did know the reg numbers of the 3 bikes but it’s got missing over the years.
