Written by Martin Hodgson
There can be a simple price to pay when you choose to roll with the pack and conform to what the current culture demands; everyone else is happy but yourself! For Victor Dikanchev obeying the rules was never going to be an option, he’d build his bike the way he wanted no matter the reaction. Living in Bulgaria where there is almost no bike scene anyway, his motorcycle would become an extension of himself. So help him bring it all together he enlisted KKKBikes and together they’ve built a brilliant 1982 Honda CB900F2 that’s quite at home dividing opinion.

To best understand Victor and his custom you need to know about where he comes from, ?I live in Sofia where the cafe racer culture is still in its infancy. There are very few people who own custom bikes in general and even fewer actually ride them regularly. What this means from a practical standpoint is that there is no such thing as a custom motorcycle industry here – you can’t buy aftermarket parts from anywhere and there is just a handful of people who do this for a living.?
So with all those hurdles in his way, why bother building a bike to please others, ?if a decision had to be made, we would give priority to form over function – the single seat, the riding position, the exhaust that is way too close to the ground. Nothing is comfortable or practical, but nothing was supposed to be.? Having previously met Kamen Harizanov of KKKBikes years earlier, Victo...