Honda Scrambler?

[TravEX]

Did Honda make a bike called a Scrambler? I was searching for brake shoes for my Big Red, and was looking at what all it fit and came up with this...

Honda - CL360K Scrambler 1974
Honda - CL360K Scrambler 1975

Any ideas?

Travis

[El'Capitan]

i saw one on craigs list a little while back..it was a enduro or a street bike...looked alright.

[ScottZJ]

Yeah they came out right before the CB750F/K came out. They were the street/cruzer type bike.

http://www.motorcycleminnesota.com/052002/01/image1.jpg

[Vealmonkey]

back in the late 60's and into early 70's honda made a bike called a 305 scrambler. It had high exhaust pipes and was one of their first dual purpose bikes. The early bikes are quite collectable and considered by many to be one of the best looking bikes honda ever made. They were hondas' answer to the dual sport triumphs of the time.

[dgould]

Trav,
The Scrambler was the Honda bikes with the up swept pipes. The CB's had the down pipes that came out under the foot pegs and the Scrambler pipe came up and out right under your seat.

[TravEX]

Well, that's cool, I had never heard of em.

[thefox]

Trav,
The Scrambler was the Honda bikes with the up swept pipes. The CB's had the down pipes that came out under the foot pegs and the Scrambler pipe came up and out right under your seat.

Hey dgould, do you know if they did anything different with the engine (cam, gearing, ect.)? My brother just bought a 1970 CB350 and we were wondering if the CL350 scrambler has the same engine internals.

[Chevy200s]

They werent just 350s though, I have a 74 cl 450 that Im told was also called a Scrambler, looks a lot like the 350 as far as the pipes and everything, just a bigger motor. They also had drum brakes up front as opposed to disk brakes like on the cb's. I guess the idea behind this was that drum brakes were assumed to be more reliable in an offroad environment compared to disk brakes which were a fairly new idea at the time. Keep in mind this all comming from what I have heard from other people, could be wrong, please correct me if I am.

Just had her out and riding around the yard earlier, still runs great:) It handles well on the grass and on mild bumbs but I wouldnt want to take it out on much more than that. Hope to have my motorcycle license and have it on the road by next spring

[dgould]

Hey dgould, do you know if they did anything different with the engine (cam, gearing, ect.)? My brother just bought a 1970 CB350 and we were wondering if the CL350 scrambler has the same engine internals.

Hey Fox,
The 1970 cb/cl350 have the same pistons, cylinder, cam, crankshaft and trans. The cb has a 36 rear tooth sprocket and the cl has a 38 tooth sprocket. The engines do have a different casting number but looks like most of the internails are the same. I had to get rid of 13 old Honda motorcycles before I moved out here and most of them were the old cl's. Just make sure not to start them without a battery or don't start them with a battery charger hooked to them because it will smoke all of the lights and those bulbs are like $36 each, ouch. I found out the hard way.
Keep the old rides running,
David Gould

[TimSr]

I think most of the SL350 motor is also interchangeable. I have a whole bottom end from one of these. I couldnt get rid of it on ebay a while back.

[dickieg89]

I have a 72 scrambler parts bike I bought a couple years ago, it wasn't worth resto so I parted it out , I still have a bunch of parts....Anyways, the CL was hondas first attempt at enduro, high pipes etc, the CB had the regular pipes.

I have the clymer manual too somewhere here.....