Hi Kerry. Haven't "seen" you about recently on our Facebook page. David and I were discussing that fact the other evening. Hope you're well and would love to get some of your pictures. If you email me at jacqui@davidsilverspares.co.uk I'll get some questions off to you to find out about your bike and what you've been doing with it. All the best, Jacqui.
Finally got back. Hope this info is of interest. My CB400/4 SuperSport is the F1 model manufactured in Dec 1976 and it originally started life as the Varnish Blue and is now a brilliant Candy Atares Red. Why red? They go faster! We purchased the bike in 2010 from a guy in Victoria, Australia who used it as a daily ride as much as possible. He was quite rapt with the bike but had to sell du to family commitments. We saw it on eBay, asked some questions, put in a bid, then asked for a Buy it Now price, just in case someone else got it. And bought it.We paid $3500.00 plus freight. When the bike arrived it was in quite poor condition, the header pipes are rusty and the outer one is dented, collector box not bad and end can good. Rims were covered in dirt and baked on grime. I spent nearly two weeks, off and on, scrubbing, cleaning the whole bike. The chain guard I had to use a flat head screwdriver and strong stick to remove all the built u grime. Spokes were scrubbed clean, basically the whole bike was scribed, washed and polished. My fingers and nails had a permanent black/brown stains. (glad I wasn't working then!) I am slowing restoring the bike but I am not too fussed if it is not concourse condition, I want the bike to be restored enough to be ridden and attract plenty of attention, which it does! I still need to replace the header pipes, I have a set I bought from Motad, and there is a minor oil leak which I am hoping is only the head needing tensioning. When we got the bike there was a gasket set and the w/shop manual had a lot of grease marks where the head gasket section is. Most part for the bike have come from David Silver Spares except the ignition switch which went out on me one day on a ride, bummer! The bike is not staying with me and will not be sold, when I got my full bike license and was looking to upgrade to a bigger bike, I read an article about the CB400 and fell in love with it. Unfortunately I found out they were no longer available new, that was in 1998. I have wanted one ever since.
Great work, hope to see more pics and news etc here.
ReplyDeleteI have a red 1976 model here in Sth Australia and love it!
Cheers, Kerry.
Hi Kerry. Haven't "seen" you about recently on our Facebook page. David and I were discussing that fact the other evening. Hope you're well and would love to get some of your pictures. If you email me at jacqui@davidsilverspares.co.uk I'll get some questions off to you to find out about your bike and what you've been doing with it. All the best, Jacqui.
ReplyDeleteFinally got back. Hope this info is of interest.
DeleteMy CB400/4 SuperSport is the F1 model manufactured in Dec 1976 and it originally started life as the Varnish Blue and is now a brilliant Candy Atares Red. Why red? They go faster! We purchased the bike in 2010 from a guy in Victoria, Australia who used it as a daily ride as much as possible. He was quite rapt with the bike but had to sell du to family commitments. We saw it on eBay, asked some questions, put in a bid, then asked for a Buy it Now price, just in case someone else got it. And bought it.We paid $3500.00 plus freight.
When the bike arrived it was in quite poor condition, the header pipes are rusty and the outer one is dented, collector box not bad and end can good. Rims were covered in dirt and baked on grime. I spent nearly two weeks, off and on, scrubbing, cleaning the whole bike. The chain guard I had to use a flat head screwdriver and strong stick to remove all the built u grime. Spokes were scrubbed clean, basically the whole bike was scribed, washed and polished. My fingers and nails had a permanent black/brown stains. (glad I wasn't working then!)
I am slowing restoring the bike but I am not too fussed if it is not concourse condition, I want the bike to be restored enough to be ridden and attract plenty of attention, which it does! I still need to replace the header pipes, I have a set I bought from Motad, and there is a minor oil leak which I am hoping is only the head needing tensioning. When we got the bike there was a gasket set and the w/shop manual had a lot of grease marks where the head gasket section is. Most part for the bike have come from David Silver Spares except the ignition switch which went out on me one day on a ride, bummer! The bike is not staying with me and will not be sold, when I got my full bike license and was looking to upgrade to a bigger bike, I read an article about the CB400 and fell in love with it. Unfortunately I found out they were no longer available new, that was in 1998. I have wanted one ever since.