Cb350 Cafe Racer Build

The bike did not run for 30 years when i got it.

Cb350 cafe racer build. I discovered quite a variety of cb350 café racers while cruising the net. Monnom custom s honda cb350 cafe racer quite a few wood adorned bikes drop into our inbox these days but few make it online. A 1973 honda cb350f. One build that recently grabbed my attention was sydney based member ducatiboy s honda cb350 limited edition cafe racer.

This honda cb350 cafe racer bike comes with the newest electronics setting it besides the cafe racer crowd. There was a huge resurgence of interest in cb350s well before i started the project both café racers and vintage road racers so i figured i had better get moving on the build before parts became even more scarce and expensive. Timelapse build of a 1973 honda cb 350 four scrambler. After a few emails back and forth db shared the story of his cafe racer build with me and despite his declaration he was no good behind the camera he snapped off these slick shots for us.

Motorcycles and family go hand in hand and nothing demonstrates that more than this honda cl350 cafe racer by sean sallings whose parents were married in a harley shop. I entirely rebuilt it then made it a 2 seater scrambl. The cb350 uses a 14 3 inch set of fox s all new podium rc1 fully adjustable rear shock absorbers designed especially to improve the suspension of older bikes used for custom builds such as cafe racers as the build was to be a ground up performance and visual improvement on the ageing cb350 much of the original bike has been replaced with. The cb350f as you may know was a completely different animal from the regular cb350.

Titan s impressive cb350 based the one build resets the clock on the cafe racer craze. Sean s father is none other than jan sallings of jms customs whose builds have graced bike exif and we recently featured this incredible honda cb175 cafe racer built and owned by kat stovall sean s fiance. Conversely the motorcycles in this era in america didn t have to be little and nimble and because of this the organic transformation of a stock bike to a bobber or chopper was not necessarily a more compact bike. The latter was a 325cc parallel twin whereas the cb350f was a 347cc four cylinder offered only from 1972 1974.