I moved to NYC a few months back and finally got my Cb360 up here. If you’re in NYC drop me an email – andrewdavidwatson (at) gmail (dot) com – I’m missing the crew in philly and need some riding buddies up here. Also, if you know of any good routes between philly and NYC i’d love to hear them. I took 95 to route 1 to 278 into brooklyn. The route 1 part totally sucked.

- Andrew

My old roommate Justin finally brought his 1974 CB360T down to the city after 2 yrs of havin it outside the city. We’ve been slowly getting it going. Carbs cleaned, new oil and gas,  fixed some electronics. It’s kinda rusty and ratty so I think he decided to go with a old rat bike look for it.   -mick

Took the rubber manifold from the stock air filters and installed the pods on that instead of directly to the carb body so they clear the battery box. Bike sounds even better now. However, there is a small flat spot in the rpm range around 3/4 throttle. Any suggestions on jetting? Plugs are nice and golden brown.

On a side note, Andrew hit a solid 1,000 miles since we swapped the engine and got it dialed. This speedo goes with the original engine so we don’t really know how many miles this engine really has.

Finished up the rear end of my CB360t and with that, my bike is almost 100% done (for now). I still have to rebuild the MC and I’m having the fork seals done at Liberty Vintage while i’m out of town the next few weeks. Here is a quick list of what i have done:

1) cut down and remounted the original turn signals so they sit closer to the frame.

2) replaced the taillight with a “Lucas style” light

3) I wanted to put on pods but they don’t clear the battery so I’m sticking with my original air boxes till I have time to remount the battery. I felt like the 360t had the ugliest side panels of all 70s Hondas, so i made my own out of 16gauge sheet metal. They still need to be refined, but they are coming along. I left them raw to match my tank.

4) I cleaned up an extra set of shocks from a cb350 and replaced the 360ts shocks. I only did this because i like the chrome boot on top of the shock and the 360t didnt have that. They ride the same, just look nicer.

5) I had a custom seat done by the same guys that did Ed’s seat. It came out pretty great and feels much better then riding around on a seat pan!!! However, i wish I had them put in firmer foam. If you ever get a seat redone, its probably a good idea to have all new foam (I believe they used some of my old foam which I think is causing the softness problem)

6) Like i said in my other post, I took off the tool box and rewired the key so it’s right next to my kick start. I ended up having to replace the whole unit again because the original was pretty chewed up and started to cause some issues.

Of course I have a million more things I want to do, but work is starting to get busy and the weather is getting nice, so I think i’ll ride her as is for the time being!

- Andrew

…and the classic before photo.

Stripping paint is messy.

Helped Andrew raw out his 360t tank.