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Iron of the Year 2020: Honda CBX750F by Garage14
Winner of the Ferro dell’Anno 2020 at MBE! The MBE Motor Bike Expo held each year in Verona, Italy, is the world’s largest custom motorcycle show, a four-day event with over 700 exhibitors and more...
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CB Adventure: Honda CB750 by Monnom Customs
The Honda CB750 is one of the most beloved vintage motorcycles in existence, and possibly the most popular platform for custom builds. Introduced in 1968, the 68-hp CB’s tranverse inline four engine...
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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 of the...
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Backroad Warbird: Honda V30 Magna “WeeVee30” by MotoRelic
One of America’s most talented builders creates a bike just for himself… In 1984, Honda unveiled the VF500C, better known as the V30 Magna — a potent 500cc cruiser whose sophisticated V4 powerplant...
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Heritage Edition: KASPEED CB750 RC42 Cafe Racer
“A concept of how a modern Honda works cafe racer could look if they built it at the factory.” In the early 1990s, Honda introduced the CB750 RC42, an air-cooled inline four with a steel double...
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Finnish Gravel Eater: Honda SLR650 Adventure Scrambler
Finland’s Panu Laakkonen builds a Honda adventure machine… The Honda SLR650 was a streamlined, more street-oriented version of the popular NX650 Dominator, geared more for commuters and couriers than...
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Unicorn Chaser: Honda CX500 by Last Lap Liza
Fairytale in Steel: From $50 junkyard heap to full-blown Unicorn Chaser… The Honda CX500 has always been a bit of a strange beast, a liquid-cooled transverse V-twin that earned the nicknames the “Poor...
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Attack Life: Honda CB750 by Three Daughter Moto
Photo: Brandon LaJoie | Handbuilt Show “When you find yourself at a time of uncertainty there is only one way to go: forward.” Missouri’s Brent Becker was in Amsterdam for work when he crossed paths...
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KEEP IT HONDA: CT70 / Grom by Therapy Garage
A Grom-Powered CT70, ready for town and trails… The Honda CT70 — aka the “Trail 70” — debuted in 1969, featuring a pressed-steel “T-bone” frame, folding handlebars, and a 72cc OHV four-stroke engine...
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XLsinore: Honda XR600R Scrambler
The Honda XR600R was one of the most successful dirt bikes of all time, an air-cooled beast built from 1985 to 2000 — a wildly successful machine in both the desert and the woods. Out west, it would...
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Hyabusa CBX by Roland Skate
Pipe Dreams: Six of them… In 1978, Honda unveiled the CBX, powered by a 1047cc, 24-valve six-cylinder engine that made 105 hp at the crank. At the time, Honda had been making steady progress in...
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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...
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Father / Daughter Custom: Honda CB350 by David & Sonya Lloyd
For more than 25 years, David and Michael Lloyd of Lloyd Brothers Motorsports (LBM) have been involved in flat track racing. Back in 2005, they campaigned the only Aprilia/Rotax flat tracker in AMA...
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Honda XR350R “Hoodoo” by Buscadero Motorcycles
Drool-worthy XR built for vintage motocross… The Honda XR350R debuted to a good bit of fanfare in 1983. Together with its big brother, the XR500R, the big red enduro would help change the way people...
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Honda XR400R “Supercafe” by 485 Designs
For Sale: Supermoto-inspired XR custom from Colorado… Introduced back in 1996, the Honda XR400R would become one of the most well-loved and successful trail bikes of all time. It weighed 257 lbs dry...
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To The Rescue: “Unexpected” CX500 Cafe Racer by BCKustoms
Honda cafe racer built for a French Coast Guard rescue diver… Yann Le Douche of BCKustoms (Breizh Coast Kustoms) has an enviable pedigree for a custom bike builder. In his long career, he’s worked as...
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Black Russian: Honda CB750 Cafe Racer by Drive-In Workshop
Leonid Skakunov of Russia’s Drive-In Workshop cut his teeth as a mechanic at various workshops before renting a small space of his own in 2016 to build custom bikes. In the last four years, his builds...
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Honda XR250 Tornado Scrambler by LBC Motorcycles
Retro Enduro built by Argentina’s Low Budget Customs… The Honda XR250 Tornado was a Latin American equivalent of the XR250L, sporting an air/oil-cooled 4-valve DOHC tuned for better low-end torque and...
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Honda Hornet 600 “Elise” by Nicola Manca
Introduced in 1998, the Honda CB600F — better known as the the Honda 599 (USA) or Hornet (Europe) — utilized the old mid-90s CBR600F sportbike engine, tuned to 97 horsepower and set in a basic chassis...
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Honda XR400R “Rat Bike” from R.L. Allman’s Peter Pan
In this darkly re-imagined new series, Peter Pan flies on two wheels… Ronnie Allman is a young filmmaker whose fascination with motorcycles can be traced back to his boyhood days. He grew up in...
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