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SOHC.co.uk Forums => CB500/550 => Topic started by: BigAlan on December 03, 2014, 09:27:30 AM
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Where can i find definitive images and spec of a 1976 550F bike? I want to at least try to get one back to whatever colour and spec it would have been from the factory but when i google i get every bike of every colour.
Stuff like what indicators look like, brake lights, headlights, decals you kow the stuff.
Thanks
Alan
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Hi Alan,
Have you tried here: http://www.sohc4.net/cb550-gallery/
This is a good site for many references
Cheers,
Frisky
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Depends on if it is a USA or UK 550F. Head lights, tail lights and indicators are basically standard across the CB range. This may help>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y7YkacdGEI
The only decals on the 550 F1 was Super Sport on the tank and 550Four on the Panels
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Need to find someone who has a reference bike, like mine is for Lobo's 400F :P
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Def a 550F and not a 550K?
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Def a 550F and not a 550K?
I am told its a 550F.
One shall see.
Alan
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Here's one I sold a couple of years back:
(http://www.nirvana-motorcycles.com/images/CB550F%20FRP950T%20web.jpg)
UK bike:
- small indicators
- black rear light bracket
etc...
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James picture is of a US model, big indicators and a chrome rear light bracket. Steves is a UK model, small indicators and black light bracket.
Now thats the sort of info i like, and great pictures they are as well.
Thanks
Alan
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I added them about a minute after first posting when I realised that the two bikes were different.
Unless you happened to read my reply in the 10 seconds or so between the post and the edit, then you missed it!
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... and your post was 30 minutes later...
:)
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The picture of James bike is a usa F2 (Super Sport) and steve's one is also a F2 UK. If you are looking at a 1976 it should be a F1, it should say on the frame number.
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The picture of James bike is a usa F2 (Super Sport) and steve's one is also a F2 UK. If you are looking at a 1976 it should be a F1, it should say on the frame number.
Yep. It's a T-plate (1978/9)
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Steve, that is a very nice CB550F2.
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Here is some pictures of a original F1 excluding the exhaust and brake lines. For sale>> http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HONDA-CB550-F1-/281507613016?pt=UK_Motorcycles&hash=item418b294958
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The picture of James bike is a usa F2 (Super Sport) and steve's one is also a F2 UK. If you are looking at a 1976 it should be a F1, it should say on the frame number.
Now i am confused, the link further up leads me to the following
CB550F Serial Numbers
CB550 F1 1975 CB550F-1000002- CB550E-110004-
CB550 F2 1976 CB550F-2000003- CB550E-1109887-
CB550 F3 1977 CB550F-210001- CB550E-1135380-
This indicates the 1976 is a F2
I know nothing, i am learning day by day.
Alan
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Those are dates of manufacture, not registration. We never got the F3 here, probable US market only, but I have seen F2s on the road registered as late as 1979 (V)
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Those are dates of manufacture, not registration. We never got the F3 here, probable US market only, but I have seen F2s on the road registered as late as 1979 (V)
Hairy is right. Never seen a UK CB550 registered in 1975, only 1976. The yanks always had the bikes before us. All you have to do is look at the frame number to see if it is a F1 or F2.