Town and Country: A Honda CB350 Built In The Catskills
It’s said that your surroundings influence your creative output. For Nick Cologero, those surroundings are enviable: the tiny hamlet of Olivebridge in upstate New York, flanked by the forests, trails and streams of Catskill Park.
From his home workshop Nick runs Catskill Mountain Customs Inc. He?s a full-time firefighter, but spends his down time building bikes and handling small fabrication jobs.
This foxy Honda CB350 is his latest build?and it’s a far cry from the sorry state it was in when Nick first laid hands on it.
?It began as a bone-stock ’72 Honda CB350 that sat non-running for over 20 years,? he says. ?It was complete, but just about every part was rusted, dented or seized. I picked it up knowing that it would be perfect for a future build.?
Sure enough, a customer soon came along looking for a café racer. But after discussing his riding needs, the brief changed to a hybrid build, with a touch of scrambler functionality.
?It needed to be a bike that he could ride around his property in Cape Cod, and then take into town for lunch,? explains Nick. ?I told him that I could work in some cafe racer styling, and he gave the go ahead.?
Nick decided to start with the rolling chassis and work his way inwards. He lopped off the CB350’s stamped steel subframe, and fabricated a replacement.
He also factored in a gentle upsweep and new shock mounts, so that he could fit longer shocks without tilting the bike forward and affecting its geometry t...
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