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Honda CB350 facts

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My memory of the bikes differs to a couple of facts mentioned in Oli’s article. He mentions the CB350G having angular styling; this style was used on the first CBs of 1968-70. They had the “angular” tanks with a blue or metallic red top and white lower. The K2 retained the same styling, the tank was gold top with white lower and gold instead of white side panels but, like the CB750, the exhaust was silenced, somewhat spoiling a super sound along with the bikes losing the speed of the originals. These are 250s as the 350 wasn’t available in the UK until the K3/4 (British) style was adopted circa 1973, however, the first 350s were identical. #

The handbook that came with my K4 showed the gold K2 model titled ‘UK’ version, while the K4 on the opposite page was titled ‘US’ version, just to confuse things!

The CB350G described as “angular” was a US-styled K4 with a disc front brake, chrome headlight brackets, rubber gaiters and the clocks angled to the rider; not angular in any way. I’m not trying to be a critic – it’s just something that I feel should be checked out.

Karl Chadwick

Karl, apologies for confusing my ‘G’ and American models. The CB360G5 was the machine I thought was ‘slightly more angular’ as it had that steeper slant to the tank, pointyupwa­rds silencers and flatter side panels. Yours everchaste­ned, Oli

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