Engineer Mat Kubak’s Budget-Built Honda 550 Café Racer… We always love to hear the origin stories of the builders who grace our pages. While many grow up around bikes — riding, racing, and rebuilding dirt […]
Tag: Honda CB
Perfect Balance: Honda CB1100 Custom
Modern Classic Masterpiece from Wedge Motorcycle… In 2009, forty years after the introduction of the CB750 Four, Honda introduced the CB1100 as a spiritual successor to that iconic machine. The 1100 had many hallmarks of […]
Racing Gold: Honda CB900F Bol d’Or Superbike
A Race-inspired CB900F from Old Tops Garage… In 1979, Honda declared their newly unveiled CB900F to be a “a thundering Super-Sports bike with devastating performance and an unwavering stamina.” Initially known as the CB900F Super […]
Red Soul Rising: Honda CB750F Café Racer
Jax Garage’s “Soul Red” 750…for sale! In 1979, Honda released the twin-cam CB750F, a 77-hp DOHC evolution of the “Original Superbike” released a decade before. Moto-journalists had previously claimed that a 750/4, while fast in […]
Tumulte Seven Fifty: Honda CB750F2 Café Racer
Introduced in 1992, the Honda CB Seven Fifty — better known as the Nighthawk or CB750F2 in some markets — was an air-cooled retro roadster with a steel cradle frame, twin-shock rear swingarm, conventional air-assisted […]
The Graduate: Honda CB400F Café Racer
A show-worthy graduation present from Never Ending Cycles… The Honda CB400F is one of our favorite Honda fours of the 1970s, a café-styled machine that sported a high-revving 408cc inline four and one of the […]
Outlaw 400F: Honda CB400F Café Racer
Chattahoochee Skunkworks builds an “Outlaw CB400F”… At the time of its introduction, the Honda CB400F was hailed as a mini-superbike. The small, highly sophisticated 408cc inline four boasted a 10,000 rpm redline and six-speed transmission […]
The Nitron Special: Honda CB900F Restomod
The “Daichi CB900F” from Japan’s Team CB’s… Introduced in 1979, the Honda CB900F was a 95-hp DOHC roadster based on the company’s European Endurance Championship racer, thus the “Bol d’Or” (Golden Bowl) name the […]
Resto-Monster: Honda CB1100F Restomod
1123cc Honda Restomod from AC Sanctuary… In 1983, the Honda CB1100F arrived as the company’s king sport bike, designed to battle head-on with the 1100-class superbikes from Kawasaki, Suzuki, and Yamaha — bikes that were […]
Red Tail Redux: Honda CB750 Café Racer
Joe Flores resurrects a tribute to a 33-year Air Force veteran… The Tuskegee Airmen were the USA’s first African-American military aviators, best-known for their signature red-tailed P-51 Mustangs, which flew heavy bomber escort as part […]
