Backroad Bomber

[Lil John]

GREAT SITE!

I have recieved a 72' Cb350 twin in a swap that is a total basket case, that i am going thru.

Here in Indiana you can register a bike as an ORV, (off road vehicle) thru the DNR,( instead of the licence branch) and you can ride the burm of roads like a snowmobile, without the indiana bike licence or plates.
All you need is a tail/brake light, and a headlight dusk till dawn.

I raced flat track in the 70's, and I am inspired to go back to "do the ton"=fun!

So........ I am building a enduro/dirt track style to carve up the backroads as a fun work transport.

I can't find any stock tank rubber knee pads for a 62' CL72 tank for the style I am going for, but other than that I am getting the parts together slowly but surely.

Bead blasted jugs/sidecovers, etc to prepare the motor for build-up.

I will have some parts left over, so I will be watching the buying/swapping pages for needs of others to help out.

Ride-on!
Lil'John

 

[Big R]

Welcome to the site John! I gotta ask, any pics? I'm interested as to how this turns out.

 

[Hoosier Daddy]

Welcome from another Indiana Member, just north of Ft Wayne!
Sounds like a nice project you got there... do you suppose they are going to require you to put those big ass offroad numbers on your bike?

 

[Lil John]

To check out the legal stuff for ORV cycles click around at: http://www.in.gov/dnr/outdoor/4229.htm

No title for bike...just a legal indiana bill-o-sale, (available to copy online from the BMV!)...no plates/cycle licence, no turn signals, and no headlight needed during the day,.
(Just headlight/tail from dusk till dawn.)
This helps out the battery life on these old cb350's, because they don't charge worth crap at idle!) You just need a brake light full time.

Steuben county roads are closed to riding down the lane of the road.
I can only ride a road with a wide dirt burm, or a wide tar burm...on the outside of the white line, or of course in the grass ditch.
Every city/county has different laws, so do some checking in your area before building up a backroad blaster for yourself!

I'll try to post pics when the grandaughter brings her camera around.

Ride-on!
Lil'John
(It is the same as registering/riding a snowmobile because of the speed involved.)

 

[Hoosier Daddy]

Steuben! I'm in Noble..

 

[VonYinzer]

Welcome to DTT! This sounds really cool! Ill be watching for sure.