Honda Cb400f Cafe Racer

Honda cb400f raptor by ripple rock racers it s a long time since we ve featured what you might call a traditional café racer.

Honda cb400f cafe racer. The bike had a sporty cafe racer look and feel ride and handling were deemed excellent at the time. I built this bike to be a barely legal street bike says shawn that could be ready for a track day in ten minutes. In the builder s words. The honda cb400f is such a neat machine a 408cc inline four produced only from 1975 1977.

The man behind this bike used a 1973 cb350f frame and coupled it to a honda cb400f engine making all the necessary adjustments and modifications and turning out a bike that ll confuse even the most passionate hondaficionado. The cb400f was in quite miserable condition with a mangled badly cut subframe deep grind marks all over the main frame a spray painted engine and a multitude of what árpi calls garage built features the build plan was to make a neat looking cafe racer which like a good pair of jeans fits most occasions. Goldie sits halfway between a cafe racer and actual racer and that s completely intentional. All this brought together a universal bike which was easy exiting and smooth to ride in various situations giving you a feeling of control riding in harmony with a thoroughbred.

In an era when many riders were more interested in straight line speed and quarter mile times the 400f had low handlebars rear set footpegs and a lightweight race style exhaust possibly the most beautiful factory pipes ever. Honda cb400f cafe racer introduced in 1975 the honda cb400f super sport is one of the most exquisite motorcycles ever to come out of japan a lightweight inline four with a 10 000 rpm redline six speed transmission and quite possibly the most beautiful set of pipes those 4 into 1 waterfalls ever mounted on. It didn t look too bad in the listing photos and was mostly all there but the motor was seized. The term is used very loosely these days we re as guilty as anyone and it s easy to forget how far we ve moved on from the classic style.

It s roughly 270 pounds 125 kilos wet and is a blast to ride. I came across a beaten up cb400f on ebay while looking for my next project bike. The bike had an array of cafe racer styling elements such as low handlebars rear set pegs and that swoopy signature 4 into 1 exhaust possibly the most beautiful stock exhaust ever produced. Honda cb400f cafe racer.

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