Hello all, I have been absent here for quite a while as my passion has been for road racing lately. I haven’t ridden the CB since 2015, and I’ve never finished setting up the Mikuni kit as I couldn’t solder the throttle cable...
Anyway, for two years I’ve had the original front end from my VTR250 race bike hanging there tempting me to put it on my CB360. (In late 2016 I built a 1990 CB-1 front end with cartridges for the race bike.) I kept thinking I have 17” alloys from the VTR250 that could work, but I really think spoked 18’s are the best Usually working on bikes is the only thing that calms my mind when I can’t ride and today I needed a distraction. The front wheel came out of the CB and I grabbed a VTR rotor from the parts pile. Ok, I can make that fit easy enough, but what size axle is in the CB? Awesome, it’s 15mm just like the VTR, so I grabbed the 250’s front end and put it in my work stand. The VTR250 axle went in the CB360 wheel without spacers, and I tightened the caps. The short of it is, it fits great and it looks great! It keeps the period look but goes from 31mm legs to 35mm and it will have awesome brakes with the single 310mm rotor. Also, internally the fork is well set up with springs and emulators. I raced with this fork for two and a half years. As far as fabrication goes, I’ll need two axles spacers, 4 holes drilled & tapped in the hub and I’ll probably have a bit of work with the steer tube. From there it’s just a matter of reworking my dash layout and I may make a new upper triple because the VTR250 had a fuse box under a plastic cover up top. I am once again motivated to work on the old girl
If you’d like to use this front end there is only one negative, they only offered it for one year 1990, and it’s hard to find.