1975 Honda CB360T

I just bought a 1975 Honda CB360T, for $75.00 from my Brother, 8,000
original miles & it runs good & everything! I would like to know do
they make pointless electonic ignitions for it??? Any high performance
ones? I wouldn't mind putting something like that on it. Anyone out
there have any Info on this??????

 

Pointless is a pretty apt description. High performance and CB360T
are destined to remain but nodding acquaintances in this world.

I say leave well enough alone, don't mess with success.

If you are determined to put electronic ignition on it check out
Dyna, they've been doing it since around the time that bike was
new.

http://www.dynaonline.com/english/sportbike_dynas.htm

 

On a CB360?

Bwaaaahahahahahahahaha!

 

Mick Hand ran a 9.08 @ 158mph quarter-mile, on a dragbike fitted with a CB360 engine many years ago.
Not a standard one, I'll grant you.

 

A nine second quarter on 360cc? Jesus. What *had* he done to it?

 

Bolted it to the crankshaft to a Chrysler Hemi?

Googling turned this up:

http://www.thefang.co.uk/parallel.htm

 

Oh, I know the Fang. He gave me some very good help with my project
CB500T a couple of years ago, and I gave him a couple of old engines in
return!

 

Here's one fitted with a supercharger, running 11-second quarters on the day I saw it.

http://peterrimmer.myby.co.uk/images/360blown.jpg

 

Actually I think that was a 350 on reflection, of course a totally different engine.

 

Oh, do give up with the sanctimonious shit.

Virtually any aftermarket electronic ignition is better than old points:
who'd disagree? I wasn't laughing at him, just at the idea of using the
terms "high performance" and "CB360" in the same posting.

I can't think of a nastier Honda twin, with the exception of my late
unlamented CB500T. Actually, yes I can - the CB250G5, a reduced-capacity
CB360.

 

Most probably put on a high-performance iggie, for one.

The stupidest thing you can do is laugh at a newbie who wants to improve
things. It would be well worth remembering that the iggie is heart of all
performance. There is absolutely dead-dog nothing wrong with having an
iggie that performs more consistently and delivers a fatter spark than
stock.

 

There's a vast world of difference between 11 second quarters and nine
second quarters. In drag terms, two seconds is a glacial age.

Standard bike would just about hit 100mph on a good day, and standing
quarter time.... I'd have to look it up, but somewhere in the 15s sounds
about right.

It was the handling I hated. Easily improved, I suppose. And just the
general feel of the thing.

 

I had the CL360 Scrambler. It was a fun bike that would go anywhere with
some decent tires. Yeah it handled like crap, but it was reliable. Now I
have a *real* do anything bike - a 1995 R100GS.

 

I actually liked the old CB350 too. Small, neat, reasonably light.
Everything the CB360 wasn't.

 

Nope. Well, maybe in the US - I don't know. It was launched in the UK in
late 1974. Er, I think. But definitely not 1973.

 

Hm. That figures then. Announced 1973, but the earliest I've seen in
Britain was a 1974.

Out of interest, where was the one you saw?

 

Re: 1975 Honda CB360T

Group: rec.motorcycles.tech Date: Tue, Feb 10, 2004, 10:45pm (EST+5)
From: (The Older Gentleman)

I can. Try a Honda SL175. A heavy, slow, vibrating piece of crap,
worthless on street or dirt. At least the CB's were road worthy (more
or less). In fairness though, virtually all the 4 stroke parallel
twins of that era sucked. (But at least Honda's versions were
reliable).

 

Whats wrong with the 360? I knew several guys that owned them and they
were good basic tranportation. Not a performance bike by no mean, but
certainly more reliable than the kaw equivents of the their day.

Oh, do give up with the sanctimonious shit.

Virtually any aftermarket electronic ignition is better than old points:
who'd disagree? I wasn't laughing at him, just at the idea of using the
terms "high performance" and "CB360" in the same posting.

I can't think of a nastier Honda twin, with the exception of my late
unlamented CB500T. Actually, yes I can - the CB250G5, a reduced-capacity
CB360.[/QUOTE]

 

That's not saying much ;-))

They were just utterly bland, solless, ill-handling, slow and not
particularly reliable...

The 350 was a much nicer bike, IMHO.

 

Buy one[1] and find out for yourself

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Mark '01 SV650S '99 EX250-F13 '81 CM400T

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1975 Honda cb360T motorcycle.

Aesthetically, this bike is in super shape. Low miles. My wife started
out on it a couple years ago and rode it for part of the summer. We
didn't winterize it and never got it running the next spring. It's
been sitting in our garage since then. Bike has potential but does
need at the least, a tuneup.



Make a reasonable offer. Asking around $750


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ps- be patient if I don't respond between feb. 25th and Mar. 6th. I'll
be out of town.