Honda CB360 Scrambler - Graceful Classic Refinement?

[The Spin Doctor]

"No matter what angle you view it from, this scrambled CB360 is absolutely dripping with bespoke flair."

It's not the worst I've seen, but I'd love to know what "a murdered-out handlebar" is.



More here...

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/cust ... ews_static

[MrLongbeard]

I'd love to know what "a murdered-out handlebar" is.

Be sure you're sitting down before you read on, this level of information can be mind blowing.....


.......are you sat, are you ready?.......

......black, that's it, murdered out translates from chav Essex wide boy parlance to black in English

[Bigjawa]

It just looks like it's stolen/recovered.

[Skub]

The G5 250 and it's mate the 360 were two of the worst engines Honda ever made. A mate bought a G5 new and it was a dog,even back then. Honda managed the double whammy of a slow engine and utterly unreliability . Tony Galea put his kids through school selling cam chains and tensioners for such bikes.

Re the custom job, looks wise,it's tidy enough,but I wouldn't touch a bike with that engine with someone else's bargepole.

[The Spin Doctor]

Feel the hate

[iansoady]

I've never understood this fashion for a big hole where the airbox etc should be. It just looks unfinished. And as for "murdered out" - words fail me.

[mangocrazy]

As Skub says, they were one of the shittiest bikes Honda ever made (and there are plenty of contenders) and time and a half-arsed restomod will not have improved the situation. I can only assume that the reason that these customising types choose bikes like this as a base is because they're dirt cheap. Anything decent as the base for customising adds too much to the bottom line.

I wouldn't touch that with, well, anything.

[ZRX61]

CB350 & *bespoke* don't belong in the same universe. In fact so many idiots are using the word now that it's lost the original meaning & now translates as "chavved up hipster trash"

[DefTrap]

I think this is definitely another "don't touch with bargepole" bike from my BikeBuyersGuide reading from the 90s.
I don't hate the styling but it's not exactly stunning and you could pretty much get it in an afternoon by removing all the crap and waving a Halfords spray can about. And you've still got an unreliable slug engine powering it.

And in what world is it a scrambler?