year model

LOUD MOUSE · Post by **LOUD MOUSE** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:18 pm

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. .........lm

rebelbob wrote:Back to the original question. This red frame scrambler has the serial Number stamped in the fork tree where all the rest of my honda bikes do, but unlike the others there is not a metel embossed badge riveted to the tree. Is this typical of CL 77's?

Scottie · Post by **Scottie** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 9:55 pm

Ooops... sorry I mis-directed -- didn't know what you meant by badges, obviously.

Yup. Serial is just stamped on the frame.

Scottie

e3steve · Post by **e3steve** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 4:27 am

Scottie wrote:How about this?

This the kind of badge he was talking about? Looks like an official tag of some type. Or maybe for a gated neighborhood?

In the states: We don't need no stinkin' badges!! At least not yet anyway. Makes me wonder what kind of "carbon footprint" taxes these cool old bikes will be assessed in a few years.

Scottie

Well that, my dear Scottie, is what we Brits call a tax disc! Yes, another tax on the Blighted Bastards from Blighty (I s'pose the money for the road network comes from somewhere). Its proper name is a Road Fund Licence, or RFL. We owners of machines over 25 years old get it for FREE, yes FREE, annually. It gets printed with NIL in the £ field. But we still have to display one. If we (they, actually, as I don't f@#*ing live there!!) don't have/apply for/display one then the registered owner automatically gets fined (more beaurocratic revenue) in the mail. If a vehicle isn't 'On The Road' (failed the road test or whatever) then the owner must remit a SORN -- Statutory Off Road Notice -- to DVLA -- the Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency.

With me so far? S'bollox, isn't it.....

Anyways, you do see the odd manufacturer's pre-stamped plate (like the Denso one on our starter motors [sorry, CL-ers, you don't have one of those, do you?]) rivetted to the steering head but, as I admitted, I've not seen one on a CB. Could be wrong. Has been known.........

rebelbob · Post by **rebelbob** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 11:00 am

the one I am missing is not like that one here's a picture of one on a CB750

Scottie · Post by **Scottie** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 2:16 pm

Thanks for the info steve. It sounds similar to the US, where we have to pay for license "tabs" yearly, the same as cars. If your car/bike is 25 years or older, you can get a "collector" plate which is free of yearly fees, but has limited use.

I dug through my pics: FWIW, here is a pic of the steering stem on my CL77, showing the loose and swinging horn on the left and tank bumper on the right.

Scottie

davomoto · Post by **davomoto** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 2:27 pm

Honda didn't use those badges until 68 or 69. So nothing is missing.

davomoto

rebelbob · Post by **rebelbob** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 2:33 pm

How can you tell the year model for titling purposes?