Intro from Dallas and Mild Cafe CB360

SO I was on the old forum back when and I found the other a week or so ago and it has almost no activity and now I have found this one. I see a lot more familiar handles over here and from reading around I can kind of infer what happened. It looks like this will be my new twins home since it looks like more happens here.

I had a cb350 that got majorly sidelined and then sold because of this project which is now essentially done and just waiting for the weather to hit its worst so I can tear it down for paint.




I need to save up some moneyfor my dream bike, so I'm going to be finding some rough bikes and cleaning them up and selling them. First candidate is 74 CB360 that I'm going to do a mild cafe job on. The ultimate goal is to keep costs low for max profit margin while still creating a bike that isn't a piece of ****.

Here it is as of pick up day.




Then I started by removing all the paint on the tank and in my usual luck... it was all beat to hell. So my original plan of making some nice little knee pockets is out and I'm dishing the entire sides of the tank. For my first attempt at hammer forming I'm pretty happy with the results.










Then I cut all the unnecessary tabs of the frame and mocked up a cardboard seat pan that will be transferred to light gauge steel where all the electrics and battery will be stored under the cafe tail section.



I then started on the tail section by spray 77'ing some sections of foam from home depot.



Then I used the orbital sander to get a rough shape. (dirtiest thing I have ever done, pink dust everywhere.)



After that I used a palm sander to get it closer to shape and here it is mocked up.




Still need to put a layer of bondo on the foam and get the final contours dialed in. My fiberglassing stuff should be in the mail this week. I need to locate a inexpensive pair of rear sets off a newly wrecked crotch rocket and then I can start final dis-assembly.