1975 Honda CL360 build

[santogd182]

I have been a lurker here the last few months so I finally wanted to share my progress on my first cafe racer build with my 1975 Honda CL360. I picked up this bike back in November and rode it around for a few weeks before tearing it apart. Here is what it looked like at the time of purchase:


I have only been able to work on it during the weekends so the tear down and clean up took many weeks. Finally after it started warming up a bit in the north east I was able to start painting in March and just this past weekend I was able to start putting everything back together.

Here are some pictures of the interesting stuff I have done over the past few weeks. I realize everything I have done may not have been the correct/perfect way to get it done but for my first project I was just looking for something obtainable and that looked like what I had pictured in my mind. I am hoping to get the engine and wiring back into the bike next weekend and I still need to paint the tank. Let me know what you guys think. I think I am going to have to change the license plate mount to somewhere else as it is pretty close to the tire. I should have more pictures to upload in the coming weeks.









Chris

 

[john.leach1991@gmail.com]

What seat is that?

 

[santogd182]

It is a DCC Original seat.

Here is the link:
http://www.dimecitycycles.com/vintage-cafe-racer-caferacer-chassis-seat-parts-black-dcc-originals-ribbed-leather-wrapped-one-up-racing-seat-dcc-lwrapcafe-r.html

 

[john.leach1991@gmail.com]

Very cool! I must have missed that one. How have you mounted it?

 

[santogd182]

Thanks. You can actually see the mounts in a few of the pictures but what I did was cut off the old mount, bracket, and lock and weld two risers that the seat mount on. On the underside of the seat I riveted two steel plates with nuts welded in the correct locations so the seat could easily bolt to the frame. I lost the ability to quickly remove the seat but I think this should work fine.

 

[santogd182]

Got the engine put back into the bike, started running the wiring and painted the tank. Starting to come together now.

 

[santogd182]

Finished painting the tank today and I also got started with the wiring, throttle cables and clutch cables. Throttle and clutch is all back together now after a little work sanding the bars to make them not stick and the wiring is done enough to make the bike start but I still have to get all the lights next weekend.