RETRO CHIC: SLIPSTREAM’S HONDA CB360 SCRAMBLER

[weeksy]

https://www.bikeexif.com/honda-cb360-scrambler

[Count Steer]

Quite pleasant. Don't like the colour scheme much and there's not much clearance on that rear wheel for any serious scrambling. Nice enough for tootling about.

[weeksy]

Quite pleasant. Don't like the colour scheme much and there's not much clearance on that rear wheel for any serious scrambling. Nice enough for tootling about.

I think 'scrambler' is more a term of aesthetics now rather than a term of riding.

[mangocrazy]

Why anyone would bother reviving one of those gutless, unreliable and charmless lumps is beyond me. Waste of time, effort and money. But Mr. D might like it - it has drum brakes at both ends...

[weeksy]

Why anyone would bother reviving one of those gutless, unreliable and charmless lumps is beyond me. Waste of time, effort and money. But Mr. D might like it - it has drum brakes at both ends...

Because it looks absolutely fantastic ?

[ChrisW]

To echo what was said about the R1 yesterday, if Honda made something similar to this - a 125, 250, 400 - I'd probably be interested.

I'd be happy to buy one from them rather than Mash etc. at, say, a premium of about a grand?

[mangocrazy]

Why anyone would bother reviving one of those gutless, unreliable and charmless lumps is beyond me. Waste of time, effort and money. But Mr. D might like it - it has drum brakes at both ends...

Because it looks absolutely fantastic ?

Beauty is certainly in the eye of the beholder...

[Mr. Dazzle]

I like the stitching.

[Count Steer]

To echo what was said about the R1 yesterday, if Honda made something similar to this - a 125, 250, 400 - I'd probably be interested.

I'd be happy to buy one from them rather than Mash etc. at, say, a premium of about a grand?

It does have the style of the Mash and the other (yellow) bike I posted up on the random thread. I imagine the big markets like Asia need 'soft scrambler' bikes, so that's what we get from the Chinese makers.

[Ditchfinder]

ChrisW wrote: ↑Thu Sep 22, 2022 9:25 am
To echo what was said about the R1 yesterday, if Honda made something similar to this - a 125, 250, 400 - I'd probably be interested.

I'd be happy to buy one from them rather than Mash etc. at, say, a premium of about a grand?

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

I like it, if it were mine it'd get longer mudguards and longer, upwards angled exhausts, but those are minor changes.

[mangocrazy]

The CL360/CB360 was one of the least reliable bikes Honda ever made. It had major top end oil starvation and camchain issues (the cam ran directly in the head, no bearings) and needed oil changes at half the recommended intervals to even stand a chance of staying in one piece. And even then, using what little performance it had would accelerate its demise. Why anyone chooses a bike like this for a project is beyond me. Possibly because all the good stuff is too expensive?

[weeksy]

The CL360/CB360 was one of the least reliable bikes Honda ever made. It had major top end oil starvation and camchain issues (the cam ran directly in the head, no bearings) and needed oil changes at half the recommended intervals to even stand a chance of staying in one piece. And even then, using what little performance it had would accelerate its demise. Why anyone chooses a bike like this for a project is beyond me. Possibly because all the good stuff is too expensive?

You assume it moves

[mangocrazy]

Good point, well made...

[ChrisW]

ChrisW wrote: ↑Thu Sep 22, 2022 9:25 am
To echo what was said about the R1 yesterday, if Honda made something similar to this - a 125, 250, 400 - I'd probably be interested.

I'd be happy to buy one from them rather than Mash etc. at, say, a premium of about a grand?

Yep, that's getting closer but it's India only, I think. There's loads of cool smaller capacity Japanese bikes at the moment that aren't coming over here, but then there always have been I suppose.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Return of the grey import?

I think at one stage all of my mates and I had grey import Jap bikes.

[KungFooBob]

Erm...



Available today from your local Royal Enfield dealership, for around £4k.

[Skub]

I can hear the camchain rattles from here.

[DefTrap]

A sweet runabout for around town, that's about it.

[Ditchfinder]

I think if Royal Enfield put the 411 engine from the Himalayan/Scram 411 into the new Hunter 350 they'd sell a bucket load.