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florence:
I might try that.
z1100r:
Started the painting today....I love the bike in the vid below...so thats what its going to be..dont care if its wrong, this isn't a restoration.
Ready for laquer... and supershine...!!!
Honda CB 500 Four K2 - Candy Blue - 1977
florence:
Looking very nice, fast work.
Don't worry about restoration, it's just wrong anyway. Very few bikes remained standard for very long after they were bought. Most people fixed all the standard things that were a bit rubbish and made the bike suit their own taste and style. Your bike is a great example of that. Why would you want to go back to single disc brake and slippy clutch, brown paint etc...?
matthewmosse:
Re modifications and insurance, I was with CN until they got really stoppy and refused cover on my BMW r90/6 because it had a 1000cc engine - ie bigger barells, bottom end on them things is the same from 800 - 1000cc. They wanted an engineers report that it was properly fitted. Previously I'd swapped 500 and 550 motors a few times on my 500 sidecar with no problems off them, they were even fine with the bmw being twin plugged and having leading links and a sidecar, just that engine swap they wouldn't budge on despite me pointing out I couldn't get to an engineer without cover and that the engines hld by 2 wadging great bolts that would be nigh on inpossible to get wrong. I just went to Lynnbrooke who were offering 'buy back salvage' as a policy benefit, something I'm rather keen on having as I can put pretty much any dammage short of a total burn out and rather like my 500/4 too much to see it broken after an accident. Cost wise I can cover 5 bikes for myself, my dad and my wife for
captaindonutbikes:
so what beefing up to the clutch did you do ? would be very interested
oh and lucky b-stard for starting out the box after all those years. honda reliability proven ;D
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