GPgarage Moto builds a trio of four-stroke Honda motocrossers… Introduced in 1979, the Honda XL500 would become one of the most successful dual-purpose bikes of the era, combining a 32-hp version of the XR500 engine […]
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Super 6 II: Honda CBX Café Racer
Lys Motorcycles builds a six-cylinder café racer… For the 1979 model year, ten years after the introduction of the revolutionary CB750, Honda released another two-wheeled marvel of engineering, the CBX1000 Super Sport. The mighty CBX […]
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 […]
Family Heirloom, Reborn: Honda Shadow 600 Custom
Tumulte transforms a family heirloom for a factory Mercedes AMG driver! Introduced in 1988, the Honda Shadow 600 — aka the VT600 or VLX — was a liquid-cooled V-twin cruiser with a 35° rake and […]
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 Rocketeer: Supercharged Rau-Honda Streetfighter!
Think it, Build it: Blown Rau-CBR900RR from Rocket Sprocket Customs… Manfred Rau was a German motorcycle frame designer, engineer, and tuner who designed his own backbone-style frame to accommodate the big air-cooled/cooled four-cylinder Japanese engines […]
Monkey Business: Honda Z50 Custom
Moto Adonis builds a meaner Monkey… As the story goes, the original Honda Monkey was created for a Honda-owned amusement park in Hino, Japan — a Tokyo suburb: “It was called Tama Tech Park, and […]
Memory Maker: Honda Dominator 650
Fit for a Prince: Ellaspede’s Honda NX650 Dominator… Ellaspede is one of our favorite builders not just in Australia, but worldwide. The workshop started as a small home garage operation, which went under (literally) with […]
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 […]
Baja Monster: Honda XR667 Desert Racer
GPmoto Garage recreates Honda’s 1991 “Stealth Boomer”… In the 1990 Baja 1000, Honda’s XR600R entry ran a near flawless race against the mighty Kawasaki KX500 two-strokes…and still lost, keeping pace in the rough sections but […]
