Written by Martin Hodgson
In just about every ancient culture that spans the globe exists a mythology around the crow, and it almost always leads to death and destruction. So imagine yourself sitting alone in the middle of the night, stopped at a red light in the bad part of town, when as if from nowhere this blacked out harbinger of death rolls up beside you. Lean, mean and snarling through its pipes, comes this blacked-out beast from Dresden’s Hookie Co. A ?91 Honda CB750 that’ll drag you down the road and rip your eyeballs from your skull, this ‘Crow’ is ready to ask, for whom the bell tolls…

But that’s where the dark and disturbing part of this story ends for now. Walk into Hookie Co. and you’re greeted by owners Nico Mueller and Sylvia Petrasch, who surrounded by incredible custom bikes will offer you the perfect coffee from the in-house cafe, a beautiful couch to sit on and even the password for the WiFi. Think of it as Starbucks for the motorcycle lover, except the coffee is perfect, you’re served with a smile and a chat about their latest tyre shredding ideas ? so really nothing like Starbucks at all.
But the cafe is just to create a nice environment and keep everyone smiling, the bread and butter is bikes and a new project needed to be found. What Nico stumbled across while searching the internet was a 1981 Honda CB750, perfect given Hookie’s in-house catalogue of parts they produce for the model. The only pr...