The Backburner: Federal’s Four-Year Honda CB360T Project
Ex-girlfriends have a habit of leaving things behind, but a motorcycle is rarely on the list. Yet that’s exactly how Federal Moto got their hands on this sweet little 1976 Honda CB360T.
?This bike belonged to an ex-girlfriend. It was a basket-case project in the early days of Federal Moto,? says builder Peter Müller. ?She was a rider and professional designer/fabricator herself, and wanted to build her first motorcycle with our guidance.?
?However, as these things tend to go, the relationship with the girlfriend quickly ended. But our relationship with the CB360, now formally in our hands, had only just begun.?
This particular relationship would span four years, but only four months were spent transforming the CB360 into the neat little street tracker you see here. So it’s earned the nickname ‘The Backburner.’
?Because it was never slated as an official Federal build,? explains Peter, ?the bike sat in pieces at the back of the shop collecting dust. Long enough to be a pain in the ass every time we were forced to move to bigger and better work spaces.?
So what motivated Peter and his brother Mike to drag the CB360 back to life in their Chicago workshop" The perfect client, as it turns out. Around the time they were wrapping up their fifth build, a local professional in the financial industry approached them with a commission?something Peter and Mike tend to avoid.
?We usually politely decline, due to the hassles of managing time and budg...
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