EZ Rider: Turning the Honda X-ADV into a Cub EZ 90 homage
Honda is often cast as the most conservative of the mainstream motorcycle manufacturers. But Big Red also makes one of the strangest vehicles you can buy today: the X-ADV ?adventure scooter.?
The X-ADV is the offspring of Honda?s main motorcycle design studio in Kumamoto and its R&D facility in Italy, which might explain the curious mix of practicality and lunacy.
Deus Milano have now upped the brio factor with a custom version unveiled at EICMA. Called the ?Cub Cubed,? it?s a homage (or should that be omaggio") to the equally bizarre Cub EZ 90. Known in some markets as the EZ-9, it gained a cult following in?you guessed?the 1990s.
Is it too early for a 90s fluoro revival" On the evidence shown here, we?d say no. Deus have done a stunning job of replicating the vibe of the EZ 90, with a little help from the Milan studio Kaos Design.
?In some ways the EZ 90 is almost a toy,? says Deus boss Filippo Bassoli. ?So we decided to play too. The structure faithfully copies the original lines, but in XXL format. It took hundreds of hours of hard work: we built a model from which the molds for the carbon fiber fairings were made.?
This meant adding new brackets and mounting points using trial-and-error, but the result is spot on. The proportions and colors are a perfect match to the original EZ 90 (below), right down to the lettering on the flanks.
Deus have left the grunty 745cc parallel-twin engine alone. Taken from the NC750, it has a useful 54 hp and works...
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