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Honda CB350F Cafe Racer by Will Hight
Arkansas. There must be something in the water. First we starting seeing the incredible “neo-vintage” builds from One-Up Moto Garage in Fayetteville, such as this CB600 featured on Return of the Cafe...
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Honda NX650 Scrambler by Janne Hietakangas
Recently, Janne Heitakangas of Turku, Finland, sent us this incredible NX650 scrambler. We shared the bike on Instagram with the caption “Good as Gold.” Geoff Baldwin, editor of Tank Moto magazine...
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Honda CB450 Street Tracker by Tyler & Brent Thompson
Here at BikeBound, we’re suckers for father/son builds. That’s because this blog is largely a father/son endeavor, and there’s nothing like a motorcycle to bring generations together. This time,...
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Honda CB350 Street Tracker by Vintage Iron
During our Florida swing last fall, we were fortunate enough to meet “Presidente Daniel” of the Vintage Iron Club, a community of like-minded vintage bike enthusiasts based in Palm Beach County. He...
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Honda CBX400 Custom by Cafe Racer SSpirit
Cafe Racer SSpirit of San Sebastian, Spain, consistently turns out some of our favorite builds. We’ve shared their R51 scrambler and, more recently, we featured their Honda CBX custom, whose...
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CB550 Cafe Racer by Sin City Vintage Cycles
Today, we’re excited to present one of the sexiest, most well-sorted Honda CB cafe racers we’ve come across: “Class Act,” a 1977 CB550 built by Bill Docchio of Sin City Vintage Cycles and owned by...
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Honda CL77 Tracker by Dillon Sheppard
The Honda CL77, also known as the Scrambler 305, was the scrambler version of the CB77 Super Hawk. The bike had a larger-diameter frame than the CB, and the starter was eliminated to reduce weight...
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Honda CM400 Scrambler by Droog Moto Concepts
The Honda CM400 was an air-cooled parallel twin available from 1979 to 1982. It was a precursor to the Rebel, and known as a particularly bulletproof starter bike. Max Droog of Phoenix’s Droog Moto...
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Honda XR600 Tracker by Herencia Custom Garage
Argentina’s Herencia Custom Garage, based in Buenos Aires, has quickly become one of our favorite builders. We recently featured their incredible R100 tracker, and now they are back with their 34th...
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CB750 Nighthawk Brat Bike by Smith Cycles
Today, we’re proud to present this 1985 Honda CB750 RC04 (Nighthawk) brat bike by Sven Schmidt of Germany’s Smith Cycles. The RC04 was the German version of the Nighthawk. Though customs are a dime...
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Yamaha RD400 Custom by Keith Carlson
There is nothing quite like the blood-singing mania of screwing the throttle of a big two-stroke. Sadly, there are few of these blue-smoking screamers still around. Even at their height, the...
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Honda XR500 Scrambler by Droog Moto Concepts
Max Droog of Droog Moto Concepts, based in Phoenix, has been turning out some incredible builds. Recently we featured his CM400 scrambler build, and now he’s back with this burly scrambler based on...
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Blip Roasters CB550 Brat Tracker by Anchor Moto
Coffee + Bikes: The Perfect Combination Ian Davis is the founder of Blip Roasters, a premier coffee roaster in the West Bottoms of Kansas City, Missouri. Blip has been building a community based...
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Honda Tornado Street Tracker by Low Budget Customs
Argentina has been turning out some killer customs of late, especially trackers. Recently we discovered Low Budget Customs, aka LBC Motorcycles, of Buenos Aires, and we were blown away by the array of...
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Honda GB500 TT Cafe Racer
The Honda GB500 TT (“Tourist Trophy”) was inspired by the Isle of Man TT racers of the 1960s, bikes like the Manx Norton and BSA Gold Star. Then, as now, TT riders braved the 37-mile Snaefell Mountain...
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Honda CB750 Brat Cafe by Magnum Opus
We discovered this blown KZ650 by Magnum Opus Custom Bikes at this year’s Handbuilt Show, only to realize that this custom shop, run by Ezio Covelli, is located in the same town as our headquarters:...
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Honda CB900F Bol d’Or Scrambler by Vonsmotz
The Honda CB900F, a successor to the venerable CB750, was introduced to European markets in 1979. Later named the Honda Bol d’Or after the French endurance race–a nod to the machine’s racing...
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Honda CB500 Brat Bike by Patrick Couturier
We’re always thrilled to showcase the first custom bike from a promising young builder. Like first loves, there’s nothing quite like your first build. There’s that first fumbling through wiring...
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Honda CB400F Cafe Racer by OtC Custom
We were fortunate enough to meet Toby Jones of Florida’s OtC Custom Motorcycles at a show put on by the Vintage Japanese Motorcycle Club earlier this year. We ended up featuring one of the bikes at...
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Honda FT500 Street Tracker by Tim Olgers
The Honda FT500 Ascot is a rarity these days, an early 80s thumper styled after the Class-C flat-trackers. In fact, FT stood for Flat Track, and Ascot was a reference to the famous California dirt...
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