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SOHC.co.uk Forums => CB500/550 => Topic started by: petermigreen on March 14, 2017, 07:13:52 PM
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Evening all. I have acquired a US import 500 with a makers plate showing 12/72 and serial numbers starting CB500-211****.
date suggests K1 but on checking the serial numbers against records these suggest K2?
What do the experts think please?
Thanks, Peter.
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Trigger says K2.
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Looks to be K2..
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Thank you dear people.
I haven't found any information that lists any significant changes from K1 to K2 except for colour changes. Is that correct?
Thanks again, Peter.
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Trigger says.....clocks and clock bracket is one difference that springs to mind
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Honda ID book sez anything starting 21 is a K2 released 10th April 73 so would have to be built earlier to gets stock for sale. colours Candy Bacchus Olive; Flake Sunrise Orange;Maxim Brown Metallic (all with black) Large instruments tilted towards rider. First record I have of a 21 number is built 8/72
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All very helpful thanks.
Sold to me as a K1 so glad I've sorted that out.
Clocks do seem large though I've nothing to compare them to.
Thanks again gang!
Peter.
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Think just about all 500s sold in UK were K1. (with small clocks) Some must have been hanging about for a while as I bought a new one in Aug 74. No idea of the frame No now. But notice the engine numbers of a couple of 500s I've had recently have started with 21 but the frames have been 20. They were "N" and "P" reg.
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Honda kept making K1 for the UK market and were made up until 1975 so not old stock