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OEM colour label?
deltarider:
His is not a K0. Why ST1100 gives a second set of numbers, I do not understand. If, if, one set of the numbers is on the bike and the other set is in the registration documents of that bike, then there's something fishy.
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Nobody is perfect, but although I've seen some mistakes in their documents, Honda, compared to others, is the most reliable source by far.
ST1100:
The second set of numbers is listed in that (very old) title...
I've to assume they indicate the very first homologation of a CB500 four here in Austria (apparently August 10th, 1971).
Whilst the bike was registered at April 7th, 1976, could it have been stockpiled for some period before that...
Obviously were changes made on later models too marginal to issue a new document; hence is it also still showing a K0 drawing in the centre partition...
With no job assignments today I managed to hop by the shop and solve the colour mystery... by force... ;)
Chiselling and scraping off old layers of filler and rattle-can revealed that originally it was: Candy Sapphire Blue
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Fuel pet-cock is a K0-K1 though, electrics are K2...
The wheels are interesting though:
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After-market or genuine on this year/model?
Worth keeping and restoring them, or get the standard chromed ones?
--- Quote from: deltarider on November 23, 2015, 02:59:13 PM ---BTW, what stamped on number do the carbs have?
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No stamped numbers recognisable at all... maybe traces surface when I remove them for cleaning/servicing...
hairygit:
Those alloy rims were never a Honda option. They will be aftermarket, possibly Borrani rims.
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ST1100:
--- Quote from: hairygit on November 24, 2015, 06:32:22 PM ---...possibly Borrani rims.
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So I'll swap them onto the '73 Café then...
Thanx for all the info so far...
deltarider:
--- Quote ---Whilst the bike was registered at April 7th, 1976, could it have been stockpiled for some period before that...
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It's a bit of a mystery, this batch of the CB500 (ED, F, G). I presume Honda still had a lot of CB500 engines left over and - where in various markets they had started marketing the 550 - Honda decided to ship these 500s to countries that maybe had legislation like 500cc being the maximum either for tax-, insurance or riderslicence reasons. I don't know, Honda later did the same with the CB500K3 (almost identical with the CB550K3) of which some 4200 were assembled.
--- Quote ---No stamped numbers recognisable at all... maybe traces surface when I remove them for cleaning/servicing...
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The stamped in carbnumbers are a bit difficult to detect. The picture below shows where to look. For the CB500 it's either 627B or 649A. Yours probably will be 649A like mine.
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