The CB750 spawned the term ‘UJM’ (Universal Japanese Motorcycle). It was the first ‘super bike’—and its engine became popular for all kinds of sport bikes. It’s been named, in various ways, as one of the greatest motorcycles ever made by a wide variety of sources. It’s in the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame. Legendary racer Dick Mann won Daytona on his.
What more is there to know? The Honda CB750 is the inline-four that changed the game for both riders and builders. Introduced in 1969 and iterated for over three decades, the CB750 has been bent into every style you can imagine and has shined in every one of them. The builds covered here are just a very few of the possibilities, and several of those have been featured in the Bike EXIF calendar.
Anyone who’s been doing a job long enough has probably made a few rookie mistakes. For Tiago Gonçalves and Luis Gonçalves at Unik Edition, it was buying this 1978 Honda CB750 in the Portuguese shop’s early days, with their first bit of profit. “It was bought without first being seen and evaluated,” Tiago admits, “which…
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This week we’ve got a smokin’ hot XSR155 in John Player colors from West Java, Harley’s cool and classy Electra Glide Revival, and a Moto Guzzi eBay bargain. Plus a brief appreciation of Dick ‘Bugsy’ Mann, who passed away last Monday.
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Land speed racing has a way of inspiring outrageous engineering. The most common motivation is a relentless pursuit of outright speed. Other times, it’s driven by a desire to build something that’s truly out of this world. Shoving three bored-out Honda CB750 motors into one land speed racer is probably a little bit of both.…
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If you’re a fan of Japanese inline fours, this is your week. We’ve lined up Kawasaki GPz1100 and Kawasaki KZ1000 restomods, and a Honda CB750 cafe racer. Then we go in the opposite direction, with a look at Harley-Davidson’s new Pan America adventure tourer.
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Read more »Fredrik Pål Persson has faced a few challenges in his time. First, he switched careers from chef to bike builder. Then he…
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 »When Brent Becker planned a 45-day sabbatical from his high-stress CEO position, he had no clue it would end up stretching out…
Read more »Some custom motorcycle builders grow up riding and wrenching, and that early start is obvious in their work. On the flip side,…
Read more »A beastly CB750 from Belgium, a vintage Ducati worth over half a million dollars, a Honda Dominator with geometric bodywork, and an…
Read more »When Bike EXIF lit a fire under the custom scene ten years ago, Honda CB750 cafe racers showed up everywhere. And there…
Read more »For some people, building custom bikes is a sideline—an after-hours escape from the daily grind. For others it’s purely a business, with…
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