The high passenger seating position is one of the reasons my wife doesn't like riding. She said, 'It was too tippy sitting way up there.' and she hated corners. When my dad passed away in 1976 I inherited his old 70 Honda 450. I rode it a year before I sold it. I liked the seat, but I was a lot younger then.
What's with the BRICK on the back of your bike?
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Doc
Ha, took me a minute on the brick...
Loved the Honda flat seats. Wife and I rode many miles on them.
A couple of us in medic training in TX bought Honda 350's.
One buddy bought the new 1968 CL version. We convinced him that it was a true off-road bike....The two of us who got into the medic training by being conscientious objectors (1A-O, therefore Pope-like) , placed out hands on our hearts and declared > "Look at those pipes - nearly a full race moto-cross Bultaco!" . He caved & the 4 of us entered it into a 24 hour enduro across the TX desert. We sprung for a spare tube and a spark plug in our pit-crew tool box. Spent much more on a cooler and refreshments.
At some point during the night, out there in the desert, the pipes started cracking and then sheared off near the cylinders. This was good, because we could now see the blue flames coming through the dark and could get the next rider ready....though you had to ride in a funny position to keep from flaming your Levis. We went through quite a few tube changes (spent our beer $ at the spares truck) , the chain guard snapped off, and one fender support broke. I think I still have a cactus thorn in my heel to this day from one of my off's in a dry stream bed (which was not on the course)
And we had a he-- of a good time, got a $2 trophy as the only finisher in our class....and pretty much destroyed a nice new Honda. Didn't matter - shortly - we were all booked for the games in sunny S.E. Asia, and sold our bikes. One guy had a Bridgestone. Really cheap looking bike. He was rightly ashamed of it....
Mine was a green and white CB350.....loved that bike! #1 selling bike in the world at that time.
PS: looked up the specs on this bike. Really short 52" wheelbase (my Burg is 62"), 345 lbs. @$700 new, seemed bigger at the time. CB's Brochure said 106mph, I saw 105 one night going to Austin and back in 1/2 hr...seemed like, but I might have been a touch suicidal w/my orders for 'Nam on the orderly rm bulletin bd..
Stig
