Written by Andrew Jones
When Germany’s Mellow Motorcycles revealed this, their latest custom bike in January at Verona’s MBE show, their plan was to have it do the hard yards through Europe’s biggest and best bike events for the rest of the year. Sadly no one told the bike’s new Spanish owner, who purchased it a scant 10 minutes after the show’s gates opened. And with classic good looks like this, can you blame him" Say hello (and goodbye) to the ?Mellow Supershot? 1976 Honda CB550 Four cafe racer.

Our opening small talk with Flo, Mellow’s CEO, uncovered some unexpectedly cool news. ?We are opening a new shop in the coming weeks. The venue is inside an 18 century monastery and our showroom is located in the former bakery, nearby Frankfurt. So naturally you’d expect something really cool and unusual. Our friends immediately called it the ?Ghostbusters Building?. Fingers crossed for future Mellow bikes with backpacked-sized particle accelerators.
But back to the bike itself. The basis of the build was a Honda 550 Four from 1976. It was one of many 550s that Flo and the Mellow team had in stock. Clearly, something had to be done about this. Something cool. ?We wanted to build a reduced, classic cafe racer for ourselves,? he says. ?Something with a slim, old-school gas tank and a front drum brake installed. We knew it would be a hit at the 2018 shows.? But little did they know…
Clearly the Mellow shop is also a cave
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