Eleven hundred cc of Moto Guzzi muscle from Florida, a cafe’d Ducati Hypermotard from Germany, and proof from Jakarta that the Kawasaki ER6n can be turned into a good looking bike. We’re going global this week.

Honda CB550 by Ripple Rock Racers My local shop, Town Moto in Toronto, has a tradition of featuring a different motorcycle in their front window every month. Sometimes it?s a new bike, like Triumph?s Thruxton R or a Husky Supermoto, and sometimes it?s a custom?like this very tidy brat/cafe hybrid from Winnipeg?s Ripple Rock Racers.
Working with a Honda CB550, ?OZ? is described by RRR?s Kemp Archibald as ?Comfortable yet stylish, a simple and clean affair with a performance heart.? To get the old Honda to this state, RRR stripped the donor bike down completely before detabbing the frame and taking the cutting disc to the rear end. A new tray was fab?d up to hide the electrics and deliver a clean triangle beneath the diamond stitched leather seat. A CB650 was robbed of its swingarm and rear wheel for the build, and the tank is a hand-sculpted unit from a later model CB550. On top of the cosmetic changes, RRR also gave the inline-4 a complete rebuild, and built a four-into-two exhaust system capped with snarling reverse-cone megaphones to better enunciate its braaaap. [More]
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