As anyone who builds things for a living will tell you, the customer is not always right. Many builders prefer to get carte blanche with a bike, and some demand it as a condition of hire.
But not Billy Kuyken of Rogue Motorcycle in Western Australia. Because he’s got one of those rare clients with good taste and an eye for what works: the new owner of this very crisp Honda CB750 cafe racer.

Rogue?s client is called Josh, and when he needed someone to tackle his CB, the choice was a no-brainer. Rogue had finished another custom bike for him just months before, and knocked it out the park.
So Billy was soon picking up a rolling chassis and a selection of pre-ordered components.

?Josh called up, and before I knew it, I was down his way to pick up this CB750,? Billy explains. ?Josh had already accumulated some of the parts he wanted fitted?but there was still a fair amount of work to be done.? ?The CB750 is a very ?classic? bike to modify, and they come in all sorts of styles. This one?s fairly naked and stripped back.? (It’s certainly more low-key than the wild custom Thruxton Billy built for the artist Handbrake.)

Josh was quite particular from the get-go, with a clear creative direction in mind. So Billy could dive right in without having to bounce designs around first. The job started with a rear frame edit, and then the whole frame, engine, carbs and tank all went off for a fresh coat of black.
Josh went for the high end on his parts selection, start...