74 CB360 Street Tracker Brat

MiddleClassChops

MiddleClassChops

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Picked up this pile for $200 the other day. Been listening to the Cleveland Moto podcast for a while and those guys have motivated me to build a new to me type of bike. I've built triumph and harley choppers and bobbers before. I started out with several 78 KZ650's. And I've built a 80's xr600r street tracker (check out my blog in my sig for pics of all my builds), but have always wanted a cb360. I'm going to try and make this one a blend of a street tracker and a brat style bike. We'll see how well it works outs.

Got it home on Saturday and by Sunday it was stripped and detabbed. I'm lucky to live close to a vintage cycle salvage yard so I'll be heading there today to pick up one of their many parts bikes. Hoping to make some quick progress on this one. Will be powdercoating all the major components (frame, swing arm, bars, brackets, headlight), nice paint on the tank and then the goal is to not use 1 new piece of hardware but only use nice old oxidized bolts and hardware. The chrome on the wheels will shine up nice, but I'll leave the hubs oxidized. Trying to get a nice blend of old and new going. Lots of really pretty CB's out there, the hard part is putting together something different. I'll make my own bars, pipes, brackets, rear loop and such.

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Just took a trip to Boise Vintage Cycle. They have 2 cb360's in the yard but I passed on both of them since all I really need right now is the front brake caliper, kickstand and a tank. The tank is the hard part though. I've sealed a lot of tanks and most of the time I'd rather just buy a clean tank for a little more money than a cheap one that I have to Kreme anyway. On the hunt for a tank!
 
Check your local radiator shops. Most of them have an industrial dipping tank that will clean the rust and they'll seal your tank, too. Just had the tank on my CB750 cleaned and sealed for $95.
 
Made a little progress on the frame last night. Had some 1" DOM sitting around so I bent up a rear loop, welded in some 3/4" slugs and burned it all together. Now I just need to attack it with the flap disc to smooth it all out.

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MiddleClassChops said:
Working on drilling my brake rotor. 93 holes times 2 drill sizes each. 186 pulls of the lever.

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Tedious, but worth it. How did you measure the holes? Do you have an angle-table?
 
Just used 4 things to figure out the holes; Manilla file folder, scissors, compass and a ruler.

I laid the rotor on the folder and traced around it with a pencil, then made 3 smaller evenly spaced circles inside of it. Next I determined the circumference of the first circle and divided that by the number of holes I wanted to drill. I then set my compass to that number and simply walked the compass around the circle. I did this to all 3 circles then cut the template out, taped it to my rotor then punched all the holes. Pretty easy and you don't need anything fancy to do it.
 
Haven't made a shit ton of progress on the bike but I did manage to find some time to bend up some bars. Didn't want to go with clubmans or clip ons, so I made a set that mount under the top clamp. Just had to spin up some aluminum bungs for the top clamp.





 
Been a while since I did an update but I have the bike just about done. First pic is the seat pan that I pounded out. Had it covered locally with some ostrich that i had lying around. Went back and forth with the wiring but eventually got it the way I wanted. I had a spare Podtronics Reg/Rec laying around so I used that instead of the original regulator and rectifier. Started the bike up and realized that i had a bad coil, so it's been sitting for about a week while I'm waiting for my XS650 coils to come in from mikesxs.





 
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