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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28889 L.A. California Gender:	CB500 garage find 08/24/11 at 14:41:16 garaged in '88 not rode or registered since. owner dragged a peg and dumped it. case damage to side I could see, otherwise good condition. get it or not?
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: CB500 garage find Reply #1 - 08/24/11 at 14:43:09 How much? Can you look at the wires & see if a mouse has eaten it all up?
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28889 L.A. California Gender:	Re: CB500 garage find Reply #2 - 08/24/11 at 14:51:10 a pitance. definitely could part it out and make it back easy. 1st look was at a distance. are there any hard to replace parts? sounds like it has points, I know theres kits for twins.
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: CB500 garage find Reply #3 - 08/24/11 at 15:04:04 BUt the 500 is a 4 cylinder, innitt? You may have quite a little hotrod on your hands,
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28889 L.A. California Gender:	Re: CB500 garage find Reply #4 - 08/24/11 at 15:33:04 yes sir
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Boule’tard Serious Thumper ModSquad Offline Master of the Obvious Posts: 1620 Austin TX Gender:	Re: CB500 garage find Reply #5 - 08/24/11 at 15:42:40 Sure, get it and do a build thread! ..says we in the peanut gallery with nothing to lose, yet are curious about this adventure/story. But like you say, if it proves too troublesome if it can be parted out at a profit.. so the worst that can happen is you have to extract and sell the parts. So get bike first, evaluate later.
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bill67 Serious Thumper Offline old tired Posts: 8517 genoa city wisconsin Gender:	Re: CB500 garage find Reply #6 - 08/24/11 at 15:54:21 I think they made twin CB500 too.
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lukeduck Full Member Offline "Come to terms with the ass that bears you" Posts: 166 Ontario, Ca. Gender:	Re: CB500 garage find Reply #7 - 08/24/11 at 17:25:06 Go for it-----
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Smokestack Full Member Offline The Devil made me do it! Posts: 244 The Hammer, Canada Gender:	Re: CB500 garage find Reply #8 - 08/24/11 at 17:42:55 I'd buy it. Those CB's are pretty forgiving, and kinda bulletproof from what I've heard (never owned one). If you do buy it, they make pretty sweet cafe racers, but if it was me I'd Kong the frame withing an inch of it's life.....
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Rogue_Cheddar Serious Thumper Offline Hang up the phone and drive! Posts: 725 Haverhill, Massachusetts Gender:	Re: CB500 garage find Reply #9 - 08/24/11 at 18:02:38 Absolutely! Restos are hot these days. Everything old is new again. Old CB's cleaned up really draw a crowd at Bike Night up here in Lowell Mass.
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Re: CB500 garage find
Reply #10 - 08/24/11 at 20:54:53

Versey

I had a Honda 500 four (73 mod.). Yea it has points but they are easy and reliable. It was bike of the year when it first came out. Best I remember it got about 53 mpg. and had plenty of power (+- 45 HP). And Smoth as any bike I've ever rode.

Kinda wish I would have kept it. It wasn't agile , it was supper smoth.

I traided it for a Honda 250 Reb. Liked the Reb. till I went up hill.

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stinger Serious Thumper Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 848	Re: CB500 garage find Reply #11 - 08/25/11 at 01:15:01 the parts alone are worth a fortune on ebay.
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babyhog Serious Thumper Offline Find a Cure for Breast Cancer! NOW!! Posts: 3802 WV Gender:	Re: CB500 garage find Reply #12 - 08/25/11 at 12:13:32 Go for it!
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Reply #13 - 08/25/11 at 14:16:12

At the risk of losing you to the other side, BUY IT! if you have the time and money. I bet it will run a little with new gas and a battery. I bought an XL75 kid's bike for 150 last week Spark but no gas? Really? It's 98 here so I'm waiting for winter. You meet the nicest people on a Honda. (Or a Savage) You have the skill. They are dead simple. I am old enough to remember The first 750. Do it. Wink

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Drifter Senior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 430	Re: CB500 garage find Reply #14 - 08/25/11 at 16:14:13 Honda changes things almost every year a bike is produced for no good reason so any parts will probably have to be that year only. Unlike Suzuki and Kawasaki who tend to build the same things for decades....i learned this about hondas from experience....i would never own another Honda!!!
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