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« on: January 14, 2026, 05:22:33 PM »
Anyone know what these are for? I was told possibly a sixties or seventies Honda. Belong to a friend of a friend, I'm supposed to be moving them on, but no idea what they are.
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« on: October 24, 2025, 04:20:40 PM »
Hi all, yes I still have a few bits left, two oil pumps, two sets of fork yokes and various other clutch and gearbox bits. Also other random Honda bits & pieces. Kempton tomorrow, stall 114, by the actual racecourse fence, white Morris Minor, you can't miss it! All at giveaway prices, don't want to end up at the local tip, but......
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« on: August 01, 2024, 07:04:28 PM »
Every Wednesday a lot of the old Jack's Fish & Chip shop crowd (Bagshot on the A30 until it was recently demolished), meet up at the Pathfinder Cafe at Blackbushe airport at lunchtime. I didn't go myself, perhaps next week, but looking at the Bagshot Bikers FB page, someone had posted pictures of lots of the bikes from yesterday, there was a gorgeous CB500/4. Anyone from here? If I make it next week I'll say hello. (picture nicked from FB, not mine).
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« on: January 16, 2024, 04:07:32 PM »
Hi all, I will have my usual stall at this Saturday's (20th) Kempton Park autojumble. I usually have mainly British bits, but this Saturday I hope to take as much of the Honda stuff that we cleared out of a house clearance just before Christmas. Anyone who wants to have a rummage is welcome. I've already sold some side panels, a rear light bracket and a rev counter to several guys on here. I have no idea how much of some of this stuff is worth, so am scouring eBay etc to try and gauge prices. I am trying to be fair, but without doing myself a disservice. Most of it is Honda CB500/4, but with a possible smattering of other bits. I'm on stall 114, back against the race course, and around the middle of the line. My wife's Tesla that I'm borrowing should stand out against all the vans!  Just a taster, one of several sets of carbs, complete with manifolds and cables.
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« on: December 14, 2023, 11:38:56 AM »
Hi all, on my avatar, my original 400/4, (on my other thread, was a Jock Kerr 250/4 for a while until I passed my test). I then rode it as a 400 for a year, and sold it after painting it black. Years later, late '90s I think, I saw it at a local pub, now red again, but with Comstar wheels. I've just checked on Direct.Gov and saw the latest logbook was issued in January this year! Though still listed as black. So, she's still out there, anyone on here?
Cheers, Tony.
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« on: December 12, 2023, 08:10:06 PM »
Thought some of you might find this amusing. Way back in '79, as a 17 year old looking for my first 'proper' bike after my moped, a blue Suzuki AP50; I was reading an article in Motor-Cycle Weekly, (I preferred it to MCN). They featured a 250cc conversion for the 400/4 offered by Hertfordshire tuning company, Jock Kerr racing developments. All my mates were buying RD, XS and various Honda 250's, and I've always liked to be different. Anyway, after trading in my Suzuki at Keith Manning motorcycles in Wokingham, I found myself the proud owner of a Honda 400/4, in red, reg number NDP 85R.
I booked it in with Jock Kerr's for a few week's time, and had to just wait. Naturally one Saturday when mum and dad went shopping, I couldn't resist taking it out for a quick blast up the A30 to Blackbushe airport. I only went about three or four miles, but it scared the life out of me, after a 50cc moped, it seemed like a rocket ship!
Long story short, after they had converted it to a 250, which consisted of sleeving the cylinder and using smaller pistons, which left the combustion chambers mushroom shaped, it wasn't much faster than a 125, if that! It was frankly dog-slow, you had to take it to 11,000 in 5th, lay flat on the tank, and you could just about get 70 on the clock. It wouldn't even pull 6th gear.
If I had my time again, I wouldn't have bothered, but it was kind of cool to be 17 years old riding what looked to be a 400.
And yes, that's me in my avatar back then, you can just about see the 'L' plate on the bottom of the rear mudguard.
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« on: December 07, 2023, 11:20:23 PM »
Hi all, just joined, Tony in Surrey, not currently owning a sohc Honda, but had several 400/4s a few years ago, and briefly a 350/4. I've joined now as I have just come into a job lot of bike bits from a house clearance. The owner of the house had eclectic tastes, cars of the fifties and sixties, Brit bikes, mainly AMC and Ariel, but also Hondas. There appears to be a 500/4 engine plus more bits, including a few side panels in rather good condition, and possibly fork yokes and odds.
At the moment, stuff needs sorting, and it's in a storage facility, so can't be properly sorted until I get it home, but once it is, and I clean it all up, what I have will be available here first. I hate the fees that a certain auction site charge, so am happy to knock things out at reasonable prices.
Of course, there is always the option of keeping the bits and building up a bike, as a 16 year old I rode on the back of a mate's 500/4 with those separate exhaust pipes, and I loved it! However, I have many projects already, and my wife would kill me................
In the first instance, please don't ask exactly what's there, as I need to get it home first, but rest assured, by January I should have it all home, cheers.
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