75 Honda Cb550 Cafe Racer

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75 honda cb550 cafe racer. Trends in the custom scene may come and go, but i promise you in twenty years time when you come across a picture of this bike it. Along with the work done to clean up and simplify the honda an impressive list of custom parts went in to creating what david of e3 motorcycles. Yoshimura 4 in to 1 replica exhaust; Some of the custom parts on the cb550 cafe racer include:

To be honest, it’s pretty hard to surprise the custom scene with a cb750 cafe racer. Martin hodgson published on december 9, 2016 tweet. '75 cb550 rebuild, working toward cafe racer. See more ideas about cafe racer, honda cb, honda.

Kott’s beautiful ‘75 honda cb550 una cafe’ racer con chiarisimi richiami ad alcune moto degli anni 60/70 bellissima questa sella “bassa”, con un codino “corto”, non mi convince molto quella protezione cromata, troppo “invadente”. And yes, it’s been done over and over and over again. February 11, 2009, 04:26:19 pm » wow i just realized how puny that rear disc makes the rears on modern bikes look. The honda cb550 is a motorcycle often overlooked in favour of its larger sibling, the cb750.

We started with the frame, which went in the bin! Kott’s beautiful ‘75 honda cb550 cafe. I don’t have the figures exactly how many pounds the honda cb550 has shed, but it looks like a damn lot. The phrase “unfinished project, 95% complete” is one you often see when trawling the internet to find an old car or bike to buy.

Low milage at just over 4k miles. Cafe racer seat pan retro hump for honda cb 125 450 500 550 650 750 900 bmw r45 (fits: Fuel tank from an old cb500t, stripped back to bare metal ; Sadly it was too far gone so we sourced a replacement and got welding.

Bike is in excellent condition, and starts every time. Motohangar is specialized in customizing and restoring japanese classics. Building a cafe racer with a honda engine is evolution of the species. This custom ’75 honda cb125s owned by jesse sotelo in san jose is the product of such a sharing of knowledge.

Metal gas tank and fiberglass steat. Fresh steel blue metallic paint. Bike was taken clear down to the frame and painted. 75 honda goldwing cafe racer (yes, gold wing cafe bike)….early first year vin #697engine #787clear title in hand the pic below with the faring and bags is what it used to like and now has been converted to a full cafe racer.

A father/son team who combined different skills and overlooked differing taste to create one hell of a tidy little cafe racer. They’ve wrenched on a few side projects… For customization, they offer different “packs” to choose from with a fixed price and a standard set of modifications. If it races between cafe’s then yes.

The ‘18 is a textbook example of an exceptional cafe racer, thoughtfully designed and beautifully executed. Cb550 cafe racer cafe racer bikes cafe racer motorcycle cafe bike classic motorcycle motorcycle garage classic bikes honda motorcycles vintage motorcycles. The speeds modern bikes can achieve means that bodywork makes them faster so is a turbo’ed hayabusa a cafe racer? Refers to as a low cost build.

This seems like a bit of a shame to me as there’s a lot to be said for the 550 and if the 750 had never been invented, its smaller relative would doubtless be an order of magnitude more famous. 1975 honda cb550 cafe racer for sale. The seat, gas tank, and 4 into 2 peashooter exhaust are all from benjiers cafe racer, one of the best cafe racer websites. This thought came to mind when we had a very rusty water damaged 1975 cb400 delivered to us for a full restoration/custom build.

Yet another cool honda cb750 café racer by motohangar based on a ´75 cb. Yes, the honda cb750 is probably the most popular base bike for a cafe racer project. In today's episode, we wrap up the cafe racer build (for now) by installing the rest of the parts. “this thing (“bowie” the honda cb125s) was an impulse buy and was in pretty bad shape the day i took.