How To Build A Honda Cb550 Cafe Racer

It created a buzz on the sohc forum and then won its category at the rockerbox bike show.

How to build a honda cb550 cafe racer. 1975 honda cb550 cafe racer custom build usd1,500 (auction) free bike insurance calculator free bike shipping cost calculator click here for more photos & details (message to seller or buy/bid) disclaimer: After i proved him wrong i quickly became addicted to motorcycles. Old classics that have been cut, cleaned up & modernised. We’d just moved outside the city to a place with a garage which i turned into a workshop so.

Honda cb550 cafe racer build. Honda cb550 cafe racer by godffery’s garage every now and then, a bike appears out of left field and seems to pop up everywhere. It was an outcome that surprised us both. In february of 2011, my mother passed away and then 2 months after in april, i lost my father as well.

Until he was 28, chris swore that he’d never ride a motorcycle: The one day blake showed up with a beat up honda cb550 for me and my cafe racer project was underway. ⠀ build a cafe racer from a to z with chiefpep I’ve always loved custom bikes.

Runs like new and only 800km since completed. This began it’s journey as a honda nighthawk. Donor bikes have become more expensive in recent years, but there is a large aftermarket to help the garage or shed build Read on for the full story.

The honda cb550 is perhaps the perfect cafe racer candidate. Honda cb550 cafe racer build (barn find conversion) « on: Another great custom build from never ending cycles. The custom scene has splintered and grown a lot over the past few years, and honda inline fours are no longer ubiquitous.

Honda cb550 cafe racer build (barn find conversion) (read 24199 times) 0 members and 1 guest are viewing this topic. Refers to as a low cost build. This auction/buynow is held by our partner ebay. After acquiring the bike he discovered that it had swapped hands amongst some big names in the australian racing so he made plans to race it himself.

A 1978 honda cb550 has no business being quite this clean and beautiful, but apparently when one in extreme disrepair. 1977 honda cb550 cafe racer all new. The bikes are reliable, have great proportions, are easy to work on, have a massive after market and are pretty easy to find since honda produced tons of them. The dark art of building a cb cafe racer this is not your typical honda cb cafe racer.

A sharp honda cb550 from cardsharper customs it’s been a while since we’ve featured a classic honda cb café racer. 1973 honda cl450 cafe racer new custom tank black new fuel lines, petcock and gas cap 7/8″ cafe racer bars custom cafe racer seat custom led tail. In 2018 i decided to build my own. If there’s a style of bike resistant to trends, it’s the classic honda cb café racer.if you keep it simple, avoid the checkered stripes and the temptation to chrome everything, you can’t go wrong.

Bobbers were my thing to start with then i started liking the more brat style cafe racers; This cb550 is one of those bikes: Now, look at the before and after photos, go over the parts used and the work done and you’ll see you can apply this thinking to thousands of old bikes. This adventure began when my partner bet me that i wouldn’t get my mc license.

Fuel tank from an old cb500t, stripped back to bare metal ; 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. The honda cb is from day one a very popular bike for cafe racer builders. Some of the custom parts on the cb550 cafe racer include:

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