Bike Garage - Honda Cbx Cafe Racer

During our trip to Glemseck I photographed hundreds of beautiful bikes as well as this is i of those that caught my attention.
The 6-cylinder engine of the Honda CBX thou is actually amazing, a existent feast for the eyes as well as the audio that emanates it is for the ears.
Christian by Gietl Bikes sent me pictures of the photograph shoot made yesteryear Guru Photography as well as tells the storey of this bike.

Type: Honda CBX 1000

Year: 1983

Engine: CBX 1000

Ignition: Dynatec

Aircleaner: K & N

Exhaust: MCJ audio ajustable

Frame: Customade Rearframe

Fork: Kawasaki Zx9R alongside CNC Triple Trees

Swing arm: GSX-R 750

Suspension: Wilbers adjustable

Wheels: GSX-R 1100

Breaks: GSX-R 1100

Headlamp: V-Rod alongside handmade windshield

Actually it was a stupid coincidence ... a client of us wanted to sell his CBX because he absolutely wanted a Harley. The wheel was i time equally Streetfighter had changed but potential. So nosotros bought them.

Since I wanted to create a Cafe Racer for a long time, but I did non bring a basic bike, I built it. (I am simply at the outset to create upwards a complex TR1 Cafe Racer for which I bring been collecting parts for ii years as well as for the side yesteryear side few years for myself personally, hence the CBX equally a "fast project" to practice.

Actually the conversion should survive uncomplicated as well as inwards quotation marks solely a bump on it. But when I started alongside it as well as the wheel was disassembled, it turned out that the previous possessor had already massaged a lot, both on the frame as well as on the electrics. That's why I decided to dismantle everything completely as well as arrive new. I broke the nurture frame as well as welded a whole novel i that tally optimally to the hump. Fork swingarm as well as wheels were fitted. 

As a lamp, I took i of the V Rods, built the holders as well as a light mask made of steel for it. The master fittings came away as well as Brembo fittings alongside Rizoma containers were installed, equally good equally force buttons inwards the stub for the create clean look. Into the riders came motogadget plow signals. The ignition lock was installed inwards the left engine mount. The nurture of SP Fightmaschines has been reworked as well as backed upwards hence that it has a create clean terminal to the nurture frame. Since I wanted to produce everything myself on my bikes I also tried to sit down on the seat, I padded a spot as well as sewed it

Leather alongside bluish thread as well as covered everything. For the maiden off fourth dimension it was all correct alongside air upwards :-)

Then the wheel was completely disassembled into ALL parts (except for the engine), powdercoated as well as varnished. The pigment is based on the former Honda racing machines. This besides comes from me.

In Glemseck I was qualified alongside the Classic Racer Sprint, but this was due to a cloudbreak inwards the truest feel of the give-and-take into the water.

Let's run across if it side yesteryear side twelvemonth as well as hence folds.