CAFFEINATED SINGLE. Honda Dominator NX650 by MécaServices92
Written by Martin Hodgson
Long before YouTube there was Claude Lelouch’s epic 8 minute masterpiece, C’était un rendez-vous, showing the French are as mad as the rest of us. Fellow Parisian Isidore Delgrosso shares that need for speed but prefers to get his kicks on two wheels. From his workshop MécaServices92 near the heart of the city, he utilises his engineering talent to produce some of the countries finest customs. Now he’s back with a ’90s Honda NX650 Dominator café racer that’s been touched in all the right places.
Having previously built a modern custom killer from a Honda 650 Vigor with the same single cylinder RFVC as the NX, Isidore wanted to take things further. Not that the original Honda build was underdone, with a fully built engine, single-sided swingarm and new R1 Forks. But with his talented team around him he knew they could go one better and when he got a call about a true barn find NX650 covered in dust he knew it was time to ?transform this dual-sport bike into a real café racer.?
With one of his employees left to tear down the bike, Isidore pulled the engine and set about a rebuild that would turn the humble single pot into a stone cold killer. Sandblasted and then torn down to the last bolt the gearbox was given all new parts, while the stators flywheel was machined to lose some weight. A new clutch basket was next in with aluminium friction discs replacing the steel and a clear clutch cover installed to show it al...
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