Honda-SOHC
General => New Member Introductions => Topic started by: mihai.i on January 10, 2014, 11:18:35 PM
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Greetings,
My name is Mihai ( or Michael, Mike, in english ou Michel en francais). I am from Romania and i`m really bad with english.
i live in Bucharest, the capital of Romania (not Budapest, that is for Hungary), and i`m in negotiations for an old CB550k 4 (1978) for the price of 2.000 euro (or abou 2.700 US dollars).
I wil get it in the spring time (hope). it has 35.000 miles (is the american version, was imported from US in 1981) and is in a very good original condition.
I think is the only CB550K registred in Romania :))
Anyway...glad to find this forum and glad to find you all!
If you are traveling to Romania just give me a sign...mi casa e su casa!
I am back! just bought the Cb550k.
Some pics:) and a video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TQYVnTpbqI
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Hi Mike and welcome. Your English is perfectly fine mate.
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Hi Mihai and welcome to the forum is that the bike your hoping to buy?, it looks nice and original ;) cheers Mick.
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Welcome Mihai
I'm a typical Brit if we struggle to understand each other I'll just talk slower and louder ::)
She looks like a nice bike
Mick
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Hi Mihai and welcome to the forum is that the bike your hoping to buy?, it looks nice and original ;) cheers Mick.
Yes this is the one. i only got 2 photos but i will get more after i buy it.
The bike is owned by a 67 years guy who all his life was a bike enthusiast but he never got a japanesse bike, only MZ, IJ, URAL, and other like those.
He said that is he`s last bike...and is very fond of it, but considering the age he need to sell it to a person who really wants to take care of her ( the bike:))
The price is a little high but he is selling it with the same money that he bought it.
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Welcome Mihai, welcome to the forum
pete
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Welcome Mahai,
Don't worry about your English, it is better than my Rumanian, and anyway, SOHC is the same thing everywhere---Ken
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Welcome Mihai, know your country very well. Ex- wife from Oradea. I lived just south of Saloniki for 8 years and have many friends in eastern Europe. You many be right, i have never seen a 550 in Romania. There is a few about in Greece.
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Welcome Mihai, know your country very well. Ex- wife from Oradea. I lived just south of Saloniki for 8 years and have many friends in eastern Europe.
that is a good thing to know!
I visited a for 3 times Greece, crossing Saloniki, but only by car.
I really wish to make a round trip with my bike in Greece. probably next year!
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Sound good?
http://youtu.be/6TQYVnTpbqI
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Looks nice Mihai. Never seen one with reflectors on the fork cases before.
What is the box next to the horn?
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Looks nice Mihai. Never seen one with reflectors on the fork cases before.
What is the box next to the horn?
Some of the reflectors are from the previous owner...the strips from the fork and from the bottom of the fork. Also the rear round stop reflector...
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What is the box next to the horn?
The previous owner is a..., i dont now how to translate â€inginer electronist†(something like electric engineer).
He made 2 electonic ignition (hand made)...one is the main ignition, and one is a backup :))
He also keept the points plate. So..when you want to use the eletronic ignition just turn on a switch, when you want to use the points turn of the switch.
Also..if the main ignition fails and also the point fails, you could plug on the backup ignition..pretty cool, no?
more pics you can find on our local bike forum: http://www.motociclism.ro/forum/index.php?/topic/661157-clasice-made-in-japan/?p=3757595
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Backup electronic ignition AND a points plate.
That's more backups than Apollo 13!
He cetainly never wanted to be stranded.
MiHai - Electonic Engineer is correct (I'm one as well)
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Can not see how you could have a points system and a electric ignition in the same case. Thinking about it, i have seen some strange things in Eastern Europe.
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He did say that they were switched Trig.
Position 1 = normal
Position 2 = backup electronic
Position 3 = fallback points
Position 4 = call recovery services.
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As soon i take the point cover off i will take some pictures. I am curious too how this thing works :))
Even the previos owner forgot what was the corect position for of or on between the points and electonic. ( He didn't used anymore for 4 years an he's got 70 years :)
So now i am not sure if a am on points or on electronic!
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He did say that they were switched Trig.
Position 1 = normal
Position 2 = backup electronic
Position 3 = fallback points
Position 4 = call recovery services.
yes thats true! ther are a few position.
position 1-electronic
position 2-points
betwen them there is a position that cancel the ignition, like neutral..i think is a antitheft measure :))
For the backup, i must conect some wires but its got also switches that works in the same order ( pos 1 and 2, and the neutral). It is independent pron the main electonic ignition.
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Sorry Steve, i am crap with electrics and could not even imagine the working of it. Still would love to see it.
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Traveling Romania...10 days, 2952 km
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.796512417094703.1073741829.100002078578992&type=1&l=b325e4f6de
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Looks great Mihai. So you did not make it to Thessaloniki?
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Looks great Mihai. So you did not make it to Thessaloniki?
Not yet, maybe next year if al is good with the bike.
I think this year i will go with my car or airplane to Greece, depends the money :))
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I will be in Halkidiki next week. September is a good month.