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Offline wedoo2

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ID the Bike for me
« on: November 01, 2011, 04:56:10 PM »
I posted in the for sale area a bike I just picked up.  I posted as a 75 because that is what I thought it would be.  But I'm pretty sure the MC is a 72 550.  Can anyone tell me by the frame S/N   CB550 1017234  Tank is a brown with black on the sides with black, gold, white pin stripes.
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Re: ID the Bike for me
« Reply #1 on: November 01, 2011, 05:08:59 PM »
They didn't make the 550 until 1974 it was a 500 until then, yours sounds like '74 550 K0
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Re: ID the Bike for me
« Reply #2 on: November 01, 2011, 07:05:09 PM »
Sounds like a 71 or 72ish 500..gas cap off to the side, right?
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Re: ID the Bike for me
« Reply #3 on: November 02, 2011, 05:05:47 AM »
use this link  http://www.motorera.com/honda/index.htm   If it is a 550, it is a 1974...Larry
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Re: ID the Bike for me
« Reply #4 on: November 02, 2011, 11:13:40 AM »
Numbers starting 10 are 1974 but brown was never a colour on the 550
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Re: ID the Bike for me
« Reply #5 on: November 02, 2011, 11:42:56 AM »
Brown was the only color in 76 on the 550k here in the US.
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Re: ID the Bike for me
« Reply #6 on: November 02, 2011, 12:29:25 PM »
Provide the vin from the steering neck and the engine number from behind the cylinders.  Those can be looked up.  You may have a frankenbike.
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Re: ID the Bike for me
« Reply #7 on: November 03, 2011, 01:05:22 AM »
Appologies, you are correct that Brown was the only colour for 76, i did not look at the next page in my Honda I.D. book, it was at the end of a long shift tho'!!
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Re: ID the Bike for me
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Re: ID the Bike for me
« Reply #9 on: November 03, 2011, 06:01:46 AM »
Quote from: Hinomaru on November 03, 2011, 05:52:48 AM
Paint colors by year for the 500 & 550 bikes:

http://www.spookytoms.com/CB500-PaintColors.html

http://www.spookytoms.com/CB550-PaintColors.html
That 75 550 spooky uses is mine! I almost fell over the first time I saw it. He lifted it from bike pics. 8)
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Re: ID the Bike for me
« Reply #10 on: November 03, 2011, 06:12:34 AM »
Bender, that's a very nice looking '75 CB550 you have!  ;)


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Re: ID the Bike for me
« Reply #11 on: November 03, 2011, 09:39:54 AM »
Quote from: bender01 on November 03, 2011, 06:01:46 AM
Quote from: Hinomaru on November 03, 2011, 05:52:48 AM
Paint colors by year for the 500 & 550 bikes:

http://www.spookytoms.com/CB500-PaintColors.html

http://www.spookytoms.com/CB550-PaintColors.html
That 75 550 spooky uses is mine! I almost fell over the first time I saw it. He lifted it from bike pics. 8)

Nice bike, the sunburst orange is always my fav. Better than poop brown from 76. That's why I painted mine a different color.
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Re: ID the Bike for me
« Reply #12 on: November 03, 2011, 09:50:48 AM »
To complete: the 1976 500K2 [ED, F, G] came in:
 Candy Garnett Brown
 Excel Black
 Candy Sapphire Blue see: http://www.cb500four.nl/index.php?op=viewpage&page=12&mod_op=show_picture&content_id=3
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