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.
Fredrik Pål Persson has faced a few challenges in his time. First, he switched careers from chef to bike builder. Then he had to mortgage his house to keep his company PAAL Motorcycles afloat. More recently, he picked up a client with a most unusual brief: build a Honda cafe racer to reflect an interest…
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We love to hear success stories from builders, and Tiago Gonçalves and Luis Gonçalves of Unik Edition are on a roll. The Portuguese duo first hit our radar four years ago, and now have a crew of seven in their shop. In the last two years Unik have ‘gone pro’ and delivered 28 customs. Despite…
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When Brent Becker planned a 45-day sabbatical from his high-stress CEO position, he had no clue it would end up stretching out to six months. And he had even less of an idea that he’d spend that time building a custom motorcycle: a Honda CB750 cafe racer. Brent originally bought his 1973 CB750K, already partially…
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Some custom motorcycle builders grow up riding and wrenching, and that early start is obvious in their work. On the flip side, 25-year-old Nick Hooper’s been fiddling with bikes for less than three years now—but you wouldn’t think it, looking at this perfectly proportioned Honda CB750. Nick lives in Nashville, Tennessee, where he works as…
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…
Read more »Mike LaFountain has been working on vintage motorcycles since he was 17, and he’s a perfectionist. His creations are nut-and-bolt perfect; they…
Read more »The CB750 is one of the most customized bikes of the past half-century. But just when we thought we’d seen every possible…
Read more »There are around 2.5 million motorcycles on the road in Pakistan. Which sounds impressive until you learn that the population is over…
Read more »By the time the nineties rolled around, the reputation of the Honda CB750 was losing its luster. The iconic straight four had…
Read more »We’ve noticed an encouraging trend amongst custom shops lately: they’re offering made-to-order customs alongside their one-off specials. Diamond Atelier have enjoyed success…
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