Honda Cx650 Turbo Cafe Racer

Honda cx650 turbo with just 700 miles from new on clock.

Honda cx650 turbo cafe racer. The rear taillight/turn signal is integrated into the tag bracket. Honda's business began as a producer of piston rings. This one year only honda cx650 features a rear mono shock setup, cafe racer style tank and cross stitched seat. It was in the 1960s that these inexpensive cycles really rose to the height of.

See more ideas about honda, honda cx500, cafe racer. It is based on scrap parts from a honda cx650 turbo combined with the front end of an old kawasaki zzr.the original honda cx650 turbo was a design project for honda in the early 1980’s. In this area the cx500 and the cx650 excel all the other bikes he mentioned. 1983 honda cx650 turbo displayed at the barber vintage motorsport museum.

And also, cafe racers are not for “intellectuals”. Just google cx500 cafe racer type 8 by auto fabrica, and be prepared to droll over and eat all the blissfully ignorant words you said in this blog. But this is no drag racer. Not restored and in full running perfect order.

See more ideas about honda cx500, honda, cx500 cafe racer. Ebay, amazon) which helps support the site as i will earn a commission when visitors make a qualifying purchase. The cx500 turbo was released in 1982. The front wheel was sourced from a honda cx500 turbo.

Ready to show or go. Ray and i has built several variations of these café racers. Before using this site please read the site disclaimer.also please note that any links provided may be part of an affiliate programme (viz. The cx500 turbo (also known as the cx500tc) was only produced for the 1982 model year.

A small cafe racer seems much more reasonable for the traffic like in hochiminh city. With shaft drive, air suspension, a heavy chassis, a beefy motor, nearly a of ton of electronics and the large fairing, the cx650 turbo tips the scales significantly on the wrong side of 550 lbs. Turbo cx cafe racer featured build; Matching rims were necessary for the stance i wanted to achieve so i hunted down a rare cx650e that came with the only 18” rear “boomerang” rim honda made.

Honda was founded in 1940s japan by soichiro honda. If ever the honda motor corporation made a bike that perfectly summed up the company and its ethos, this would be it. D=1983) for the 1983 model year, which was itself discontinued the same year. This bike is currently in turbo tim’s collection.

To get the stance taylor was after both ends had to match. During this time, the japanese economy was recovering from world war ii. Custom honda cx650 cafe racer. A turbo honda cx500 cafe racer from kingston customs.

Lastly, i decided that i gotta buy a honda cx to modify it to be a cafe racer bike. In 1983, turbocharging was the wave of the motorcycle future. I’m a retired master mechanic and have been working on these cx’s since they first came out in 1978. Honda cx500 cafe racer conversion kit turns your donor bike into a bike night eye catcher by paul crowe cafe racer conversions are all the rage, and, as we all know, anything popular is often done very badly, but every now and then, someone with a bit more skill and a good eye puts his hand to the job and the finished product makes you sit up.

Andrew jones published on july 25, 2017 tweet. It was superseded by the cx650td (cx650 turbo; 1979 honda cb750k turbo cafe racer usd8,995 (fixed) honda cafe racers; And while the 1983 honda cx650 turbo was arguably the best of the turbocharged motorcycles that roared onto roads in the early eighties, it is now one of the rarest production hondas ever, with only 1,777 built and fewer than 1,200 imported to the u.s.

There are couple of things i love from the honda cx: Consider the humble honda cx. Honda cx650 e 1983 cafe racer. Honda wisely chose the “sport touring” theme with their turbo bikes, partly due to necessity of packaging everything up.

1983 gl650/cx650 care racer for sale this bike was built by ray platec, rays a retired engineer and does exceptional work. Turbotim's cx650 turbo cafe racer turbotim transforms a cx650 turbo cruiser into an fast and light cafe racer cx 500 honda cx500 cafe bike cars and motorcycles automobile cafe racers vehicles planes trains ‘the front wheel was sourced from a honda cx500 turbo,’ taylor says, ‘they were a must because they’re light aluminum and 6 spokes like the f1 car, which was a request from the client’. Getting around internet, study quite a lot bike types which may be converted to a cafe racer.

Honda cx500 cafe racer featured build: This is not about logic and speed. My honda cx650 cafe racer カフェレーサーバイク レーシングバイク カフェレーサー ホンダのバイク モト・グッツィ バイク アート 詳細. Impeccably engineered, virtually indestructible and just.

In cafe racer, japan by abhi march 1, 2015 8 comments. The problem is the cx500t has an 18” front and only a 17” rear. Turbotim's cx650 turbo cafe racer 30 july 15 i am turbotim and i built this café racer bike as a project for unique bike. Investie 11 000$ vend pour 7000$ ou toute offre raisonnable accepté offre et ou échange de moto, raisonnable peuvent être accepté.

Built by retired master tech kevin murphy, this bike is based on a cx650 turbo frame that has been joined with the front frame section of a gl500.