You are right, of course. I read in another thread about the rear wheel bearings so I called one of the biggest bearing companies around (they sell everyone's bearings - its a Cleveland based, international company). Now, I would expect Honda to use off the shelf bearings. Apparently not so. When I gave them the numbers, they could not come up with them. Suggested I go to Honda. Some of the companies mentioned (like all balls) must be making them to fit Honda applications - the big names like Timken and SKF are not.Well, I was thinking it probably would be more like Honda ST1100 headlight bulbs in the US Models.... ;-) With Honda you never know when it will be a 'specialized' sized part made just for them or some weird configuration when a standard one would work just fine. Sort of like how Sears used a standard motor for a lawnmower and then turned the crankshaft down so you had to have their 'special' pulley. Or Dell who put 'special' trays for their server hot swap disk drives and wouldn't sell the trays separately when the disk drives in them were standard and you could get them cheap. Ah, the list goes on...