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 CB550
Baby Burgundy: Clive Coombe’s Honda CB550
Write-off to Head-turner: Clive Coombe’s 1978 CB550F2… The Honda CB550F was part of Honda’s Super Sport range, featuring a lighter four-into-one exhaust, flatter handlebars, and a different fuel tank than the K model. Though the […]
Czech Yourself: Honda CB550 “Respect”
A Prague-built 550 Four from Gas & Oil Bespoke Motorcycles… While the CB750 may have grabbed the world’s attention as the “Original Superbike,” many Honda SOHC enthusiasts will tell you they actually prefer the CB550 […]
Nius Moto: Honda CB550K Roadster
The Honda CB550 remains one of the sweetest midsize machines ever produced, a 50-bhp inline four that handled well, ran sewing-machine smooth, and had the gorgeous looks of the heavier CB750. “Like it’s larger sibling, […]
Eastern Spirit Honda CB550: Redux!
For Sale: Eastern Spirit’s first-ever custom motorcycle, rebuilt! Sylwester Mateusiak of Eastern Spirit Garage — located 100 kilometers east of Warsaw — has been building custom bikes for nearly a decade, making quite a name […]
Project Clean Slate: Honda CB550 Cafe Racer
Ohio’s Mark Colasante builds a 550/4 dream machine… When it comes to Honda’s four-cylinder machines of the 1970s, the CB750 has always received the lion’s share of the limelight. It was a groundbreaking machine — […]
Queen of Heaven: Honda CB550 “Inanna” by Unik Edition
The Honda CB550 is one of our favorite Honda Fours. While it was largely overshadowed by its larger sibling, the CB750, it was much more than a run-of-the-mill middleweight. In fact, it struck an elusive […]
“BBCB” Honda CB550 Café Racer by GMW
Gaston Motorcycle Werks builds a best-in-show CB550… One of our favorite motorcycle events each year has become The Congregation Show in Charlotte, North Carolina, hosted by the good folks at Prism Supply and DicE Magazine. […]
Hello Darkness: Honda CB550 by MONNOM Customs
“It’s easy to make a bike visually scream, it’s much harder to make it sing.” Many enthusiasts regard Honda’s CB550 as the perfect vintage four: light, agile, surprisingly quick, and exquisitely balanced in both handling […]
Perfect Middleweight: “The Standard” Honda CB500 Four
“Almost every part of the bike has been touched, but looks like it could be a factory bike…” Introduced in 1971, the Honda CB500 Four was in many ways a streamlined, smaller and lighter version […]
