And just think how much fun it would have been if you'd have had a motorcycle to actually ride for the last three years instead of just tearing one apart and rebuilding one.

Craig

 

clubmans are bad, mmmkay? good namedrop re charlie though, I made a point to check out his shop this summer when I was in SF, very cool place for bike nuts

 

Until recently, we had two other motorcycles to ride as well. My other toy is a 2006 Triumph Daytona 675. I haven't been hurting for time on the road. And it was not disassembled for three years. Jeez. I work slowly, but not that slowly. I have as much fun doing the wrenching as the riding. It's a lot of fun to see these things come together. I've done repairs on two other bikes that came to me dead, 1985 Honda CB650 and a 1985 Suzuki GS550EF. Both were training for working on the CB350. I had never wrenched before I got the CB650.
The clubmans have been on the bike for a long time and I have never had any problems with them. Yeah, I turn the handlebar slowly when parking. No dents or issues from them at all.

 

That looks pretty tidy.

You might want to tilt your rear fender up a bit so it doesn't get gouged by the tyre over bumps.

 

Craig is in a bad mood again

 

One of the things I don,t get with a lot of these road builds, not saying you did it, is the placement of battery/electronics under the seat hump. It seems to me you want to move the thing "weight" lower and forward.

 

The battery is actually not under the seat hump. The seat pan on this bike is the original, still on its hinges. The battery is actually a smaller battery directly above where it had been. Yes, it is a little higher, but it is still in the center of the bike. If you look you can see some metal under the seat pan. One of those is the new battery bracket. And I agree with the comment about the rear fender. Just have to change the angle a bit. i literally had just finished assembling the bike when that photo was taken. It still needs some tweaking and finishing.

 

All in all nice work. I like the seat a lot.

Clubmans on a 350 twin are fine -they were intended for use on narrow framed, small displacement machines.

However Clubmans with stock foot controls lead to back pain and poor riding position. Especially when your seat is a little further back than most. My bike had clubmans on it when I started, with stock foot controls and it SUCKED.

Those pipes (Mac?) are going to make it difficult to place rearsets.

You may seriously want to consider another bar setup before you stick your controls back on there and wire everything in.

EDIT: having said that, I have to remember that there was that kid who rode his cb550 across the entire damn continent with clubmans and stock foot controls -and slept on the ground. So if you're young enough to have vertebrae that still feel like rubber, do what you want to do.