Custom Bikes Of The Week: 25 August, 2019
From cafe racers to scooters, we’re covering interesting ground this week. From the UK we’ve got a stunning Guzzi and a sensible Bonneville, Switzerland offers a sleek Honda CB400, and from the Czech Republic we have news of the rebirth of ?ezeta.
Honda CB400F Supersport by 2V Motos Swiss Brothers Marc and Phillip got hooked on wrenching when their father handed them a wrecked moped, and challenged them to get it going. Now operating as 2V Motos, they’ve come a long way.
The project has quite a backstory. The brothers drove three hours to buy a pair of bikes from a former Swiss hill climb champ, but neither had papers. After a lengthy process, they managed to re-register one bike?but the getting the Honda on the road wasn’t happening. And once it had been stripped down, it turned out to be in a pretty shoddy state, so it was relegated to a corner of the workshop indefinitely.
A while later, Marc needed a physical project to complete his Masters in architecture. Once he’d convinced his professors that a motorcycle build was relevant to his thesis, 2V Motos started transforming the sorry Honda into a pure classic racer over a six-month period. It underwent a full motor rebuild and re-bore, with polished ports, a race clutch and a four-into-one exhaust system from Delkavic. It also wears a Benelli Mojave tank, a hand-made tail section, and a fairing from Omega Racer. And Marc and Phillip also added new Borrani rims, TTR yokes and rear sets,...
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