{"id":2074,"date":"2022-04-02T20:55:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T00:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=2074"},"modified":"2022-04-07T11:47:31","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T15:47:31","slug":"revival-homegrown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/revival-homegrown\/","title":{"rendered":"Revival Homegrown"},"content":{"rendered":"

David & Sonya Lloyd’s 1968 Honda CB350 “68”<\/h2>\n
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David and Sonya Lloyd are a father-daughter team from Milton GA.<\/p>\n

David leads Lloyd Brothers Motorsports Flat Track Team with his brother, Michael, and they\u2019ve had quite a run in flat track with both Aprilia and Ducati builds. \u201cWe\u2019ve been honored to have many great champions ride our motorcycles,\u201d David says, \u201cincluding Joe Kopp, Larry Pegram, Jake Johnson, Johnny Lewis and Troy Bayliss. Nicky Hayden even rode our bike at exhibition laps at the Indy Mile.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sonya, 18, is currently a freshman at the University of Georgia, and in the last 12 months has begun racing amateur flat track\u2014 and she even won her first Mad Dog main event last month! While she did not have any prior experience racing, she\u2019s followed her dad around the country to the American Flat Track races since she was very young, and has become a true motorcycle enthusiast.<\/p>\n

David had previously built a stunning XL600R with his son James, so naturally his daughter Sonya had to stake her claim. After months of looking, they found a 1968 Honda CB350 at the Barber Vintage Festival swap meet that was in \u201cfair condition,\u201d which for them meant bringing the bike home on a trailer. As David, who makes a living as a new home contractor, wryly explains, it was \u201can impulse buy that we knew would need a little work. Then we decided to make it a lot of work with countless hours of sanding, smoothing and polishing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sonya and David\u2019s diminutive Honda provided a much welcome ray of light in the gloom of a lousy year, so dad and daughter locked down in their two-car garage and got to work. David explains their goal: \u201cWe wanted to build a bike that was capable of being mass produced in \u201868. A cooler, sportier version of the CB350.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nWith the exception of the mo.Unit (to simplify the wiring for the bespoke wiring harness), the Rick\u2019s Motorsport Electrics reg rec, the LED lights and the battery, David says that \u201ceverything else could have been mass produced in 1968.\u201d<\/p>\n

The bike was rebuilt from front axle to rear. The engine was cracked open, the bottom end thoroughly inspected, and the top end completely restored to stock configuration with the assistance of GMD Computrack, an Atlanta-based maintenance and repair service for motorcycle chassis and suspensions.
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\nA flat track friend in Iowa had a \u201cstill-in-the-box\u201d brand new set of Hooker headers, for which they built an \u201cH\u201d pipe crossover. The whole system was then slightly silenced through a Cone Engineering shorty megaphone. The finishing touch was a durable \u201ctitanium hue\u201d ceramic coating.<\/p>\n

Sonya and David worked together on each aspect of the build, with Sonya leading the way on the polishing and wheel lacing. They thoroughly enjoyed their work together \u2014 with the possible exception of tuning the carburetors \u2014 which tested the mettle of both. We completely empathize, as bringing a pair of fifty-year-old carbs back to life, and getting them set up just right, is not a task for the faint of heart.<\/p>\n

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\nThe seat was made by Cato’s Custom Upholstery. Painting was done by Chastin Brand, and we\u2019re absolutely in love with that blue.<\/p>\n

The fruit of their labor is a super clean, deftly executed, and perfectly balanced caf\u00e9 racer. It\u2019s all in the detail, from the original side-cover 350 badges that were painted and relocated beneath the subframe to the modified relief cut Odi \u201cHucker\u201d BMX grips, and the polished bar ends. We particularly dig the finish on the pipes and the tidy lines of the rearsets and hangers. And then there\u2019s the exposed painted fork springs\u2026<\/p>\n

What\u2019s remarkable is the total budget for the build, including the donor, came in at around just $6k.<\/p>\n

The \u201868\u2019 is definitely a keeper. \u201cIt came out better than we had hoped,\u201d says Sonya. They enjoyed the process so much that they have a number of other builds in the planning stages. This lovely reinvention of the quintessential 60\u2019s Japanese lightweight is one of our favorites we\u2019ve seen in a very rough year. Thank you to Sonya and David for sharing it with us!<\/p>\n

Check out more of the family\u2019s exploits on Instagram at @lloydbrothers.<\/p>\n

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