Actually the 550K '76 for me personally is the most desirable of the 500/550 series and here is why. It's the last model with the four original exhausts, that allow correct finetuning. In spite of the F1, that had most power to offer, I prefer the looks of this model. The oldstyle carbs, that are so easy to work on compared to the later PDcarbs. It's all in all the model that stays closest to the original by offering most of the features that were good from the beginning and least of what had become 'mode'. In detail: there is the reliable engine and updated transmission. There are those wonderful harmonicarubbers that used to protect forkseals so well before shiny legs became mode, where sunbaked remains of just one fly could ruin your seal. There is the oldstyle, elegant and sober dash with just four idiot lights and not the cheaplooking setup with that insulting fifth idiot light (I mean who needs to be informed WHAT indicator is on? Who else but a
true idiot). The modest ignition key is still under the tank, where it can do no harm. I bet you have the wires tidy through the handlebar. And there is the old style reliable airfilterbox free from unnecessary tubes.
don't know what do do with this,1500 miles 76 cb550k
I know what
I would do if it were mine. For a good riding position I would select the handlebars that were on the Euromodels (
with the holes that'll allow wires to go through them. I would change those gruesome big indicators and taillight for the elegant smaller size type of the old 550.
Strangely enough, this model was never imported overhere. We had the 500K2 '76. I've never understood why this was.
