Rare survivor?

[dangerous]

another cool wee number, note the pipes on it... remember thay were the thing to have when ya stocks rot out, cant remember what they were called but had a sound of there own. http://www.trademe.co.nz/a.aspx?id=220225157

[merv]

The CB350 seemed to be the most common bike on the road back then,they just seemed to be everywhere.That early model seemed to be common enough too....but maybe they stuck in the mind being the first version.

What I'm talking about is if you look at this page http://www.motorera.com/honda/h0350/...0/sport350.htm and forget they seem to have K2, K3 and K4 all mixed up, the one that first came to NZ in large numbers was the one they are calling the 1971 model and onwards with that style of paint on the gas tank. The 68-70's are definitely the rarer model in this country.

[Paul in NZ]

Those 350's were pretty good bikes and could be made to fly with a big bore kit and some ex / in mods. Mostly they all got made into CAMS racers and you just don't see them around anymore.

HEAPS and HEAPS of the later ones were sold but those early ones must be very rare in NZ now. Can't remember the last one I saw. Ironic really, in comparison many more RD350's have survived.

[dangerous]

Those 350's were pretty good bikes and could be made to fly with a big bore kit and some ex / in mods. Mostly they all got made into CAMS racers and you just don't see them around anymore.

HEAPS and HEAPS of the later ones were sold but those early ones must be very rare in NZ now. Can't remember the last one I saw. Ironic really, in comparison many more RD350's have survived.

Ohh theres pleanty of CB350's down here racing.. they are my worst enemy on the track actually, fark they are noisie and hell can they haul arse.

[Motu]

What I'm talking about is if you look at this page http://www.motorera.com/honda/h0350/...0/sport350.htm and forget they seem to have K2, K3 and K4 all mixed up, the one that first came to NZ in large numbers was the one they are calling the 1971 model and onwards with that style of paint on the gas tank. The 68-70's are definitely the rarer model in this country.

Ah,thank you - it takes a Honda nerd to make it make sense.I don't remember the ones with knee pads at all....but the same bike without knee pads were very common.

[LBD]

Yup that was my first road bike...about 7 years old when my dad helped me into at 15...1975.

Kept it for about 3 or 4 years, commuted Woodend to Lyttleton daily for a couple of years, round the SI a few times. Stripped it down rebuilt it several times, learnt lots of lessons on it, melted a hole in a piston when I got the timing wrong. Blew a carb from its rubber mounting when someone swapped the spark plug leads on me. Scraped pegs and side stand endlessly...Used TT100's

Good bike to grow up with...

[toycollector10]

I had the later model in 250cc guise. That is, it was the same bike as the 350cc model but with an altered bore and pistons to make it into a 250.

It also red-lined at 10,500 rpm which in those days was great fun. I thrashed my 250 to within an inch of it's life, red-lined it at least three or four times a day and it never broke or let me down. You couldn't kill it with an axe!

Go Honda!!

[REXER]

I had some great times on a KZ400 twin in the 'old days'. Just in the end stages of finishing one I picked up a couple years ago to relive my child hood or hoon days!

[Bren]

First of all welcome Rexer, your first post, no introductions and such and ya jump straight into the dabate....good on ya mate....

Secondly, my first bike was an early 80s Kwaka Z200...was a hardy little soul, and went through to hell and back with me...I had 6 pillions on it once (at the same time). I was totally pissed and comin back from a night at the speedway...couldnt leave em all to walk home and this was in ther halyconian days of the 80s when this PC crap was not around so much...

[Bonez]

What I'm talking about is if you look at this page http://www.motorera.com/honda/h0350/...0/sport350.htm and forget they seem to have K2, K3 and K4 all mixed up, the one that first came to NZ in large numbers was the one they are calling the 1971 model and onwards with that style of paint on the gas tank. The 68-70's are definitely the rarer model in this country.

The first "K4" on that page is a Cb360.
http://www.vjmc.org/articles/honda360/index.htm

[xwhatsit]

another cool wee number, note the pipes on it... remember thay were the thing to have when ya stocks rot out, cant remember what they were called but had a sound of there own. http://www.trademe.co.nz/a.aspx?id=220225157

That is a very good find -- I reckon if you fit some original pipes it would sell for a much higher figure to an American on eBay. Very important early model.

Those early Benly-styled bikes are very cool, have a unique aesthetic quite of their own.

[Motu]

They were called tulips,and were usually upsweeps....and they didn't sound that good.I have a set in the rack,but I'd have to have even worse taste than I've got to put them on a bike.They'd never meet the noise requirements now....mine have a snuff of sorts fitted,but any packing has long gone.

[Bonez]

They were called tulips,and were usually upsweeps....and they didn't sound that good.I have a set in the rack,but I'd have to have even worse taste than I've got to put them on a bike.They'd never meet the noise requirements now....mine have a snuff of sorts fitted,but any packing has long gone.

You can still buy them new.

[Motu]

But I don't buy anything new - I was given the tuplips,and that's good value to me.

[xwhatsit]

They were called tulips,and were usually upsweeps....and they didn't sound that good.I have a set in the rack,but I'd have to have even worse taste than I've got to put them on a bike.They'd never meet the noise requirements now....mine have a snuff of sorts fitted,but any packing has long gone.

Magua on here had a set on his CB400N -- I don't think they had much in the way of baffle. Sounded quite cool on his, a real nice bark. Different story on a bike with 75cc pots