Justinmillerish
New Member
Hi all, I'm starting this thread for the motorcycle I just drove 30 hours to buy last weekend. It's a 1975 CB360. The previous owner turned it into sort of a desert sled sort of situation. To start off, let me say what's going on with this bike.
The front wheel is from a 1972 Yamaha R5, the rear wheel is the stock cb360 wheel. It has knobby enduro tires which will definitely be getting switched out for some road tires. The headlights are from a tractor or something, I don't remember what he was saying about them. The carbs are also from that R5 and I actually need to get new jets and tune it since he made a custom exhaust for it after he had done that, it runs a little rich right now. Speaking of exhaust, this thing is loud. I'm considering making some baffles for it, even though he already has the mufflers lined with that fiberglass crap. The seat is home made and I'm definitely going to make another one. It has a simplified wiring harness and runs kick only with a capacitor and an on/off switch. That's probably all the important stuff, other than it was a salvage title, has been fixed, and all I have left to do is get it inspected and take the paperwork up to the dmv to get it on the road. It runs great and is actually pretty fun to ride.
Short term goals:
After that I would like to wire in some led turn signals, convert the headlight to an led headlight, make the new seat, put my other, smaller honda tank on it (I'll be offloading the current tank after I get this tank reworked so that it fits), and put new tires on it.
The main block to progress right now is definitely the wiring. I get real nervous when I start to think about that stuff haha. I'm going to try to put down a diagram of whats going on with it right now once I get a break from work and school. My plan is to convert all lights to led to reduce the amount of juice required since the bike runs without a battery aaaaand apparently cb360's don't have the best charging system. I know I need to buy a reg/rec combo, get an led flasher relay, and get the led for the headlight but from there I lose it. I've been reading the electrical faq's in between classes so hopefully I can get that knowledge knocked into my head at some point.
And after that, I think I'm going to try and make a new front plate that the front turn signals and headlight can sit in so that it looks real nice. On to the pictures. In that last one we had just gotten home, I had only slept four or five hours in the past 48, and the sun was in my eyes. I don't look too excited but I am haha.
Apologies if this is long winded and kind of a bad post, I'm just pretty stoked on it. Thanks for reading
The front wheel is from a 1972 Yamaha R5, the rear wheel is the stock cb360 wheel. It has knobby enduro tires which will definitely be getting switched out for some road tires. The headlights are from a tractor or something, I don't remember what he was saying about them. The carbs are also from that R5 and I actually need to get new jets and tune it since he made a custom exhaust for it after he had done that, it runs a little rich right now. Speaking of exhaust, this thing is loud. I'm considering making some baffles for it, even though he already has the mufflers lined with that fiberglass crap. The seat is home made and I'm definitely going to make another one. It has a simplified wiring harness and runs kick only with a capacitor and an on/off switch. That's probably all the important stuff, other than it was a salvage title, has been fixed, and all I have left to do is get it inspected and take the paperwork up to the dmv to get it on the road. It runs great and is actually pretty fun to ride.
Short term goals:
- Put a left hand mirror on
- Wire in a horn.
After that I would like to wire in some led turn signals, convert the headlight to an led headlight, make the new seat, put my other, smaller honda tank on it (I'll be offloading the current tank after I get this tank reworked so that it fits), and put new tires on it.
The main block to progress right now is definitely the wiring. I get real nervous when I start to think about that stuff haha. I'm going to try to put down a diagram of whats going on with it right now once I get a break from work and school. My plan is to convert all lights to led to reduce the amount of juice required since the bike runs without a battery aaaaand apparently cb360's don't have the best charging system. I know I need to buy a reg/rec combo, get an led flasher relay, and get the led for the headlight but from there I lose it. I've been reading the electrical faq's in between classes so hopefully I can get that knowledge knocked into my head at some point.
And after that, I think I'm going to try and make a new front plate that the front turn signals and headlight can sit in so that it looks real nice. On to the pictures. In that last one we had just gotten home, I had only slept four or five hours in the past 48, and the sun was in my eyes. I don't look too excited but I am haha.
Apologies if this is long winded and kind of a bad post, I'm just pretty stoked on it. Thanks for reading