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I posted a WTB ad on CL for and engine for my bobber project and I got an email from a guy who said he had a old CB350 and an extra engine for $100. I went over there yesterday morning and saw this, a 1970's CB350 flat tracker. The guy said it was bought brand new in 1972(? not sure) and built up as a flat tracker so it was never ridden on the street. I originally wanted something I could take the engine from for my bobber but this is too cool to take apart so I'm just gonna through everything and get it running.
Please throw that fugly seat away and fit a nice trim XR style flat track seat. Great start though. You could fit a set of later forks and Fat bars just to add some street cred and a set fo AVON Distanzias
Nah.
K70s were a cheap tyre used by Brit bike makers on cheaper models that would never be raced or run hard. Thinks like old Matchless plodding singles. That's the problem with having been around all that time, I have a different perspective.
Motards run slicks. Distanzias are actually an on-off road tire that I happen to think looks aggressive on a bike that's pretending to be a dirt racer. Of course real dirt track tires would look even better
Kev, It really comes down to what looks right to each of us. To me K70's look old school al right but remind me of boring bikes. That's because I grew up in the UK and we all fitted K81-TT100's or AVon GPs to our cafe racers. We didn't have dirt track racing in teh UK - it's an American thing.
BTW I raced Vintage in Australia starting in 78 on a T120 and later with CB77's and a CR93 and after that on a few different TZs and in the Aprilia Cup series with AHRMA. Lots of fun and scary moments. I'm better at building bikes than racing them though.
...BTW I raced Vintage in Australia starting in 78 on a T120 and later with CB77's and a CR93 and after that on a few different TZs and in the Aprilia Cup series with AHRMA. Lots of fun and scary moments. I'm better at building bikes than racing them though.
This is turning into a bit of a hijack, but try this one. It's a CB72 with 350 kit and everything has been modified in some way or another down to the wheel bearing spacers. You don't need big dollar workshops or huge budgets - just a vision and lots of hard work.
Don't worry about it, I've been pretty busy lately with school and stuff but I started to get the new front end together and figured out some electrical, I'll try and get some pictures later.
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