Snacks
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I have a CB360 sitting in my parents garage where it’s been for almost a year. Doing some work on it here and there. Just recently have I started getting serious about
A. making it run
B. turning it into a cafe racer.
When I first bought it, the po was turning it into cafe and had already cut the seat and other small cafe things. For some reason I was under the impression the motor was in decent shape. Why I thought that, fools me too. By the pictures I’ve seen, the bike didn’t look like that at all. Lol but for $400 I guess I wasn’t too upset either way. I planned on rebuilding the motor until I started tearing into it and problems after problems after problems arose. The bike never got the recall, it had metal flakes in the engine the valve cover was missing metal and wouldn’t seat. I bought a kit start lever seeing it didn’t come with one and found the mechanism was stripped. So all in all I have to fully rebuild the engine. And I want to be able to ride it while that process is going on so I was forced to buy an actual good engine from someone in Philly (2 hr drive from me). Another $200 bucks later and a 4hr ride home I had a good engine. Now this is my first Honda cb build but I built a Cafe racer out of a Kawasaki enduro. Which didn’t last long. The day I rode it to my girlfriends house aka a week after my plates were on the bike got stolen. I got it back but lost complete interest it just didn’t feel the same. So I bought the cb. And just now got the motivation to build another cafe. I planned on making this a quick build but realistic might take some time, seeing I’m in firefighter and EMT training.
My plan for this post is mainly for me so I can keep track of things I’ve done, need to do, and get help from people more familiar with cb360’s than I am.
The bike still needs to be stripped and painted, before I do that I need to weld the electronics box together (I’m a terrible welder) frame loop and make my own seat (first I’m going for a brat style seat and later once the bike is rideable I’m going to fiberglass a cafe seat.
A. making it run
B. turning it into a cafe racer.
When I first bought it, the po was turning it into cafe and had already cut the seat and other small cafe things. For some reason I was under the impression the motor was in decent shape. Why I thought that, fools me too. By the pictures I’ve seen, the bike didn’t look like that at all. Lol but for $400 I guess I wasn’t too upset either way. I planned on rebuilding the motor until I started tearing into it and problems after problems after problems arose. The bike never got the recall, it had metal flakes in the engine the valve cover was missing metal and wouldn’t seat. I bought a kit start lever seeing it didn’t come with one and found the mechanism was stripped. So all in all I have to fully rebuild the engine. And I want to be able to ride it while that process is going on so I was forced to buy an actual good engine from someone in Philly (2 hr drive from me). Another $200 bucks later and a 4hr ride home I had a good engine. Now this is my first Honda cb build but I built a Cafe racer out of a Kawasaki enduro. Which didn’t last long. The day I rode it to my girlfriends house aka a week after my plates were on the bike got stolen. I got it back but lost complete interest it just didn’t feel the same. So I bought the cb. And just now got the motivation to build another cafe. I planned on making this a quick build but realistic might take some time, seeing I’m in firefighter and EMT training.
My plan for this post is mainly for me so I can keep track of things I’ve done, need to do, and get help from people more familiar with cb360’s than I am.
The bike still needs to be stripped and painted, before I do that I need to weld the electronics box together (I’m a terrible welder) frame loop and make my own seat (first I’m going for a brat style seat and later once the bike is rideable I’m going to fiberglass a cafe seat.