Cb 550 Cafe Racer Build

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.

Cb 550 cafe racer build. The bike packs a strong punch from its gutsy middleweight inline four and the handling is lightning quick and crisp. In his high school days grant rode. Donor bikes have become more expensive in recent years but there is a large aftermarket to help the garage or shed build. See more ideas about cb550 cafe racer cafe bike.

This 78 cb550 cafe build is a must see. The replica yoshimura race exhaust had a sound we absolutely fell in love with. Brotherly build honda cb550 cafe racer. Dec 22 2015 explore micheil duncan s board cb550 on pinterest.

Shortly after moving to new braunfels texas we became friends with karly kothmann and her husband tanner. It s a 1975 cb550 belonging to grant harvey a canadian film and television director. Blake and i both rode her cb550 cafe racer and agreed it was one of the smoothest riding and sounding vintage bikes we d ever encountered. The honda cb550 is perhaps the perfect cafe racer candidate.

This is not your typical honda cb cafe racer. Cafe racer update and plans gsxr600 front end. This cb550 from poland is one of the most graceful cafe racers we ve ever seen. Motorcycles came into my life a little over 5 years ago at the age of 28.

A talented designer hooks up with a master builder and magic happens. The cb series contain an extensive list of models from 50cc mopeds to the cb1300 super four with single cylinders to the impressive 6 inline cbx engine that. Jersey honda cb550 cafe racer by kott motorcycles a sleek stripped down version of what this bike could have looked like straight from the factory built from 1974 to 1978 the honda cb550 was the company s middleweight four featuring an 8 valve engine that made 39 horsepower at 8000 rpm good for a quarter mile time of 14. In february of 2011 my mother passed away and then 2 months after in april i lost my father as well.

The honda cb is from day one a very popular bike for cafe racer builders. This cafe racer cb550k3 is an absolute stunner with some pretty fantastic design touches.