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The Perfect Café Racer: Honda CB550 “Sapphire”
For Sale: Matt MacVittie’s 1977 Honda CB550 “Sapphire”… If you had to choose one vintage Japanese motorcycle to serve as the base for a café racer project, you’d be hard-pressed to improve on the...
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HRC Inspired: Honda CX650 Café Racer
Stunning CX650 from MCafeGarage of Sardinia… The Honda CX650 was the last of the CX series, which began with the well-known CX500. The CX machines had a Guzzi-like engine layout, but that’s where the...
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Mint Chip: Honda CB350 Custom
CB350 Bobber from MacVittie Motorcycles… Last week, we featured a gorgeous Honda CB550 café racer from Matt MacVittie of MacVittie Motorcycles. Matt is an engineer, family man, and garage-builder...
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Cheater Slick: Honda XR75 Custom
Photo: Handbuilt Show / Revival Cycles Custom Minibike: “The Montague Loop Special” from Alpha Moto Co… In the early 1950s, M&H Tires began to offer production racing slicks for drag racers. Since...
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Honda XR628R: Street-Legal Baja Tribute
Hot Rod XR from Italy’s GPgarage Moto… Introduced in 1985, the Honda XR600R was destined to become one of the most successful off-road bikes in motorcycling history. The air-cooled thumper would win...
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ClubSport Light: Honda CB450 Café Racer
Honda CB450 Café Racer from Mile Zero Racers… Back in 2022, we shared the first build from a young builder out of Rochester, New York: Thomas Manno of Mile Zero Racers. We were highly impressed with...
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Changeling: Honda Hornet 600 “Retro Racer”
Custom Hornet 600 by Seb Kustom Motorcycle… Introduced in 1998, the Honda CB600F Hornet was a naked sports bike that featured a 599cc liquid-cooled inline four from the CBR600F3 sports bike — a...
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Primo Brown: Honda NX650 Scrambler
Patina Pony: Dominator 650 Scrambler from Emporio Elaborazioni Meccaniche… Surely no one at Honda knew the Honda NX650 Dominator — a single-cylinder, plastic-clad adventure bike — would become a...
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Rally Raider: Honda Dominator 650 Rally Bike
NX650 Desert Thumper from Manara Artwork… We’ve long said that many of our favorite bike-builders have racing backgrounds. Motorcycle racers tend to have a deep knowledge of geometry and mechanics,...
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La Bambina: Rally-Ready Honda CRF450RX Custom
Hand-painted Honda ready for La Ruta Del Nabab… The Honda CRF450RX is Big Red’s big-bore competition off-road racer designed for closed-course GNCC, NGPC, and WORCS events. Unlike the green-sticker...
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“Single Malt” Café Racer
TIME:Cycles builds a Hero Hunk café racer for a pro footballer… The Hero Hunk is a 150cc commuter bike from Hero — a brand formerly known as Hero Honda, which began as a joint venture between Hero...
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Baby Mad Max: Honda Hornet 600 Custom
Honda CB600F Hornet by Revel Customs… In the late 1990s, there was a small boom in four-cylinder naked middleweights. The big Japanese manufacturers wanted a slice of the Suzuki Bandit 600 market,...
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Custom Fighter: Honda Hornet 600 Custom
FVT 12: Twin-Seat CB600F from Francis Von Tuto… In 1998, Honda launched their CBR600F-powered naked bike, the Hornet 600. Built in Italy, the bike featured a re-tuned version of the last-gen CBR...
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Knievel: Honda CB360 Scrambler
If You Build it, They Will Come: “Knievel” from Freeland Motorcycles… The Honda CJ360T appeared in 1976 as a stripped-down bare-bones version of the CB/CL360 twins. It had a five-speed transmission...
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Penny: Honda CB750 Café Racer by The Hot Rod Shop
Car Fix’s Jeremy Bumpus builds himself a CB750… For many of the more mechanically-minded of us, weekend morning cartoons were eschewed at an early age for the hot rod, muscle car, and automotive...
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77 Redux: Honda CB750F Café Racer
Photo: Revival Cycles / Handbuilt Show Rocket Science: CB750F Cafe Racer from a SpaceX Propulsion Engineer… In 1975, Honda unveiled the CB750F Super Sport, a significant redesign of the original...
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Thundering Super-Sport: Honda CB900F Restomod
RCM-604 by AC Sanctuary… When the Honda CB900F first appeared in 1979, it wasn’t available in the States, as Honda was worried it might steal the thunder of the mighty CBX. American riders grew green...
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L’ill Dom: Honda NX400 Scrambler
As Seen at Bike Shed Moto Show: 400cc Scrambler from Side Rock Cycles… Most of us are quite familiar with the Honda NX650 Dominator, a fairing-clad 90s “trailie” that would lend its 650cc...
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Bernhonda: Bernardet x NX125 Hybrid Scooter!
Patina Perfection: Franco-Japanese Commuter Scooter from Seb’s Atelier x Objet Marcant… In the late 1920s, three brothers — René, Robert, and Roger Bernardet — began manufacturing sidecars in a small...
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TT Special: Honda CL72 Street Tracker
A Record-Setting Ascot TT Special from the 60s… In 1962, Honda released the CL72 Scrambler 250 with an eye toward the American market, where high pipes, semi-knobby tires, and an off-road attitude...
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