Hey, I recognize that blue and white tank. I don't think that's a Cb350 tank at all, unless it's off a sixties model or something. It is identical to the tank on my first bike, a '69 or '70 CB100, which I crossed genes, wheel rims etc, with a '70 SL100. Bought at a garage sale when I was sixteen back in summer of '90. Wish I had that whole mess of parts right now, let me tell you! But while I figured out a lot of cool build stuff all on my own, there was no interweb for me and nobody else around to help with the build. My sperm donor was a bike nut back in the sixties and on up, but all he sent me was a rock climbing helmet with a styrofoam money sign on top. Thanks a lot, what's your face. Ha ha. But I did trim that helmet down into a cool fallshirmjaeger looking helmet, illegal though it was. The CB project finally went down the tubes when a certain asshole neighbor stole the engine right out of the bike, for his kid's go-kart, while I was in the middle of moving to Calgary. I can't prove it, but he had been nagging me to sell it to him. I think I will track him down and steal one of his engines sometime, as the statute of limitations has run out on having him charged with theft, which is sad because with today's fleabay I could probably show that the engine was worth over a thousand bucks! Ha ha. No really though, if my old neighbor is one day found tortured to death, I am only joking. Joking. Ha. Ha. Ha.
Anyway, take a look at the CB100 tanks. They're pretty bloody small though. I know there are some sixties bikes with the similar paint scheme to this one, but I don't recall a CB350 with that look, though as usual I'm probably wrong.
Just saying. You could find that tank again, probably cheaper. I painted mine teal metalflake. Was planning on purple, but they put the hardener in it and I found a solid purple lump when I got around to opening the can. Ha ha. Live and learn.
If my teenaged bike fettling may all sound like a waste of time, let me just say that some five years later when I bought another messed up small Honda in deplorable condition, I got that bike road-worthy in one weekend's sun-tanning and beer drinking sessions. All together I suppose you could say those first Hondas were an ... educational experience, even if they do one day lead to a lifetime of imprisonment....
-Sigh.
Post Script:
Oh, and I heard the expression "Slides on smoother than Redbird's Avatar" somewhere around the site. And now I finally get it. But then again, do you mean the vinyl hot-pants, or what's inside of them? Because even with that whole bottle of what I hope is something less smelly than olive oil and less sticky and for that matter smelly, than astroglide; those vinyl hot-pants could have a rather gnarly interior to them, (Something like one of those old swimming caps the underwater ballet used to wear. I sure wouldn't want one of those up my own crack....) So too, with the other interpretation. You know, with the preponderance of warty cauliflower growths and all that in this day and age. I don't mean to sound like a commercial for Gardasil or whatever it's called. I know I spelled that wrong, but I think I want to wait for several years of long-term side effects study before I talk to my daughter about how to spell it. All I am saying is.... Do you have any way I can find some larger version of that image? Something with more pixels so I can get a better look at the texture of that vinyl. You know, so I can clarify what was meant by "smoother than...." Maybe you've got the name or mailing address of the model in question?
-Sigh.