The bike I found to try this project on was a pretty derelict 1971 Honda CL350. Collage kids had passed it around for a few years never really doing much to it trying to get it running...looks as if someone put some new brake shoes in the front drum, and someone else at some point tried changing the coils(it only came with one, marked "CB360" from a parts recycler)...not that any of those things would have gotten it into any sort of running/riding shape at all, as the bigger problems like all the control cables being froze up and tires completely shot.. Just the whole thing badly weathered... for $200(tho no title) it came with two keys and a shop manual, so I convinced my buddy to bring his truck and ramps and come get it
should have snapped photos of how I found it, sitting next to a fenced off high power electrical transformer station ... but once I got it home I did meet its primary caretaker, a large 'Daring Spider'( they leap out at pray to catch in mid air, then haul themselves back to their look out perch) I let him say as long as he wanted, now I'm not sure if he is in one of my other bikes, or made it back across town to the transformer station


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