what guys it's Adrian from youmotorcycle in today's video we're gonna be kind of messing
around with this beautiful, I believe it's a 1970s Honda CL 350 cafe racer. it looks like
someone's done a pretty good job going over this bike top to bottom so when I heard it
was someone who was an older gent. who usually restores cars and stuff like that who it was his
first time doing a cafe racer project and he kept this bike for a number of years before he gave it
away to his daughter-in-law or step-daughter I think. so we're gonna do some pretty basic stuff
there's just a lot of sort of loose ends it just need to be tightened up. This bike's been parked
for oohh let's see yeah sticker says 2016, so the bikes been parked for about four years now
at least, so I think it's time for just a kind of good once-over. right now I did try and kick it it
kind of wants to start but not really so we're probably gonna drain the carbs take all the old
gas out. this video is not gonna be a how-to this video is gonna be more of just me strapping the
camera to my chest and you guys can follow along and see what I'm trying to do. basically I just
brought this bike home we're gonna check out the tires, yeah it's missing a fender, this fork seal
looks like it's not good, you know what let's start with just doing general walk around the
bike. it does look like someone who ever worked on this bike they did a really good job. the whole
frame used to be black so clearly they've stripped everything down to the frame and repainted the
frame. it has clip ons for the controls here yeah not the best you know this looks a little bit
kind of original it wasn't repainted or anything but pretty good shape. around here I want to try
and clean up cuz I did spill a little bit of gas leaking it kind of made it a little bit yellowed
I guess so I want to clean it up a tiny bit. we'll check out the spark plugs to make sure
that they look okay but I might just wait until after I got the bike running. I believe I'm told
the battery is somewhere underneath here but I don't know we're gonna get access into there
so that's gonna be fun. and obviously this chain chain looks like there's a lot of life left in it
but it probably needs a good cleaning and a good good lubing and hopefully that'll get rid of all
that kind of rust dust. so let's let's get right into it first things first I'm just gonna start
with easy stuff checking out the tires so I'm just using a cheap Harbor Freight air compressor
tires were pretty low. I don't know what this bike calls for so for now just to be safe when I put it
around 32 front and back. I love this nozzle for getting into like really hard to reach places.
while I'm here I'm also checking out the tires for any kind of hairline fractures everything
looks okay. I wanna fix this loosey-goosey mirror because it's kind of bothering me.
now this is kind of wobbly over here just wanna tighten that up
let's try this but I have a feeling I'm gonna be actually taking these off and either replacing the
mirror all together or putting some Loctite in there. hopefully this won't be something
that will vibrate loose so we'll see. so we took the key and literally nothing at all happened
it's not even I have like coming on or anything I don't know how much time we really spend on
this bike I kind of just picked it up there's a little fiddle around with project and then
send it back out into the wild. I can tell you that sparkplug was in there entirely too
tight. spark plug doesn't look too too great but not too bad either I mean considering the
age of this bike then we don't even know if it will run the plug looks pretty good to me
now one thing I really want to do is drain these carbs and get the
old gas out of the tank but before we do that I want to try and figure out how to
get to the battery. I'm assuming it's underneath here because that's where
all the wiring is going. the seat comes off pretty easy the question is how do we get
to what's up behind here. unfortunately I don't know how to get in here. nope.
while we're here though may as well check out these fuses make sure they're all right.
yep this one's good. little fuse over here. this one's good too so that's good that's
what I like to see but so I know how to get to the battery. these are just
buttons that the backrest clipped into so taking these off will do anything for us
so maybe underneath? man that battery sure is tiny. how do we get in there?
it's kind of wondering if I could just bend this bracket out of here to pull the battery out but
it feel like the battery itself is really bolted in firmly so hmm guess we'll find out
Uh oh, nut came out, I don't know where the hell the bolt went
right now I'm just trying to take some of these screws out from underneath here
all right okay there's the other screw there okay. wow that is a tiny battery holy cow and
it's uh jeez it's attached in there pretty good. all right all right so this is actually really
smart this comes up it doesn't pull any the wires out it's pretty pretty sweet pretty easy to work
with. I really like what they did in how I set this up that was actually really smart whoever
did this. this whole entire bike this whole Honda CL 350 this whole bike has just started with this
one little a little battery that's like four and a half by three and a half by inch and
a half tiny tiny tiny battery, but the question is, is there any life left in this thing so it's
let's grab a multimeter and find out. I've got a multimeter to see what the voltage is. if the
voltage is really low we might be able to bring it back to life especially it's not too low but
if the voltage is just you know pretty much zero then we might be out of luck. so let's see. that
voltage is zero so there's there's gonna be no bringing this battery back from the dead
it's pretty much useless so our next next course of action is just looking up this battery type,
ordering up a new one, the only other thing I can think of is if we reconnected the battery
and put a jumper cable on here we might be able to get a little bit of power but these
terminals on this battery are so small that I can't picture a clamp even having enough room.
now for those of you who are cheap like me you might want to test this battery even though the
multimeter reads zero so let's see what happens. I can pretty much guarantee when I hook this up
yeah my battery charger is not even registering this so that's gonna be a no-go and we're gonna
have to order up a new BT4B-BS. well unfortunately that's really it for today's video I was really
hoping that I could kind of at least get a booster pack to the battery and get the bike to fire up
and so that's it's not what we got but hey the bike does look pretty sweet. if you want to find
out what happens with the rest of this Honda CL 350 I don't want to call it a build because the
bike's already been built. I don't want to call it restoration but we're just trying to get this
bike fired up again and running and check the brakes and stuff like that. If that kind stuff
interests you please hit that subscribe button somewhere down here hit the like button, anyway
as always guys thank you so much for watching my name is Adrian from YouMotorcycle if you
have any questions please leave them down the comments section down below,
always love to hear from you guys, and we'll get it running sooner later, alright peace, oh yeah