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1972 CB500K1: Goldie - First Ride

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Johnwebley:
all I can see is were the mudguard is between the bracket and fork leg,
on mine it is next to the bolt heads,


the pipe and nipple look ok, check the pivot swivels,and the inner pad just lightly kisses the disc

Trigger:
Yes, Steve. From the fork case it is the brake arm, then the mudguard. I wondered why you looked happier on the Tiger than the CB.

Lobo:
Well Steve, I gotta admit to being totally confused by the pic versus your one at the opening of this thread. It's like some cryptic quiz... not given quite enough info... it seems to me that the forward stay has detached from the bottom of the fork leg... but that wouldn't affect the brake efficiency.. so give in!

But on a more serious note, and everybody accepting that I'm a returnee to biking after a 30 year gap...AND don't manage to get out regularly... even now.

Pete wrote , "Returning to a classic bike whole set of rules etc"... and yup, in the braking department there can be little argument. But often I'm on here, & folk rave over a recent ride on their 1970's machine (inc me!).. my question is how actually deserved this might be from a handling pov? Certainly, my old K2 is just not in the same ball park as my 2013 MotoGuzzi.... which feels like its on rails at all speeds. The CB on the other hand, at >80mph begins to feel, er, not somewhere I don't want to spend too long.
Hopefully my inexperience / lack of familiarity with the bike... but nonetheless asking whether it's me (= big wuzzer), a problem with my particular bike, or the fact that in truth, 50 years ago 'this is how it was'. I certainly remember never being 'concerned' at any speed on my old '400... but back then I was a (very) dumb 19 yrs old.

In summary, it does not instill the confidence that the 'Guzzi does, but just to reassure all (!), she's in no danger of being 'dumped', as this is only a minuscule part of what it all means to me.

Ta, and as always, thanks Steve for providing / managing this great forum,
Simon.

AshimotoK0:
Yes I agree with what Pete is saying too. A lot of people have restored early 750's and then tried to use them and got a bit uneasy about the size/handling and sold them on. That's why my first 4 was a 400/4 as it was raved about in the press as being the best handling Honda of the 70's. My mate got me it from a dealers  he worked for in York, part time. He brought it over for me to East ?Yorks to test ride and although he was a hardened Norton Commando nut at the time, he had to admit that he was impressed with it's handling. Still out there today XDN128R.

I thinks Steve was a bit camera shy on the 500/4 pic and was a seasoned model by the time the later pic on the Tiger was taken :D
Nice bike(s) BTW Steve.

Cheers ... Ash

SteveD CB500K0:
My wife took the photo(s) of me on the 500. This was the best one...

A semi-pro friend of mine took the Tiger pic in the carpark at Broadway Tower.

Sorry about the lack of clues - I guess I was still fretting about the poor front brake (God knows how it got through the MOT...)

The front guard is indeed mounted between the caliper bracket and the fork leg. The caliper does not offer up to the disc in parallel.

That's a job for the weekend then!

Of all the 500/550s that I've owned over the years (this is the 7th), I don't have a picture of that area in any of my archive folders. Thus the question.

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