Your complete guide to custom Honda motorcycles, from vintage CBs and dirt bikes to wild Gold Wings. Here you’ll find everything from traditional Honda cafe racers to the latest scramblers and trackers. Check out the parts and performance upgrades that’ll take your own Honda motorcycle to the next level.
Most custom projects are completed in a matter of months, or even weeks. But sometimes the story of a bike can stretch out to years or decades. That’s the case with this delightful Honda CB500, which has spent the last 13 of its 46 years in the care of Italian enthusiast Pierluigi Intini, who lives…
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Everyone knows and loves the iconic Honda CB750, but have you heard of the Honda CB700SC Nighthawk? Honda marketed it in the US from 1984 to 1986, as an answer to the infamous 1983 tariff. But it was a pretty rad motorcycle in its own right, too. In a bid to help Harley-Davidson, the US…
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We’ve learnt to never underestimate garage builders. After-hours projects are usually executed with little money, but an abundance of time—and that sparks creativity and ingenuity. This home-built cafe racer is sharp and minimalistic, but it’s also a bitsa of the highest order. Using a crashed 1996 Honda CBR900RR Fireblade as a donor, builder Leo Poulsen…
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The Honda CBX1000 is not only iconic—it’s massive. The six-cylinder, 24-valve behemoth was a beast in every sense of the word: an unapologetic sport bike that was blindingly quick for its time. It was also designed way before stubby tail sections were en vogue. Old CBXs look unbalanced by today’s standards—but to purists, they hark…
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Read more »We don’t often feature choppers: the innovation and irreverence that permeated that scene in the 60s and 70s evaporated a long time…
Read more »We love to hear success stories from builders, and Tiago Gonçalves and Luis Gonçalves of Unik Edition are on a roll. The…
Read more »They couldn’t have picked a worse time, but our friends at Deus ex Machina Japan have finally managed to open their new…
Read more »For a bike that was only on sale in the US for a couple of years, the Honda CB400F had a massive…
Read more »At the risk of making a sweeping statement, most chopper builders take themselves very seriously. For every Technicolor humorist like Rick Fairless,…
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