Written by Martin Hodgson
Road rules and regulations can be the bane of a custom bike builder’s existence, the strict confines of the law chipping away at the rebels born free soul. In Germany the TUV certification to get a motorcycle road-legal adds even more stress, meaning many builders thoroughly design a bike before spinning a spanner. But for Thomas Lambert of Elemental Custom Cycles, located near Nuremberg, he decided on this project to visualise and build as he went. Embracing the more organic process until it revealed this stunning Honda CB750 of the highest quality.

With the company motto being ?life is too short to ride boring motorcycles? the end result was always going to be anything but dull. However the exercise of designing the build as he went allowed Thomas to use techniques old and new, as well as unconventional methods until he had an end result that was a rideable final design! ?I started with a 1982 CB750 Bol d’Or in pretty poor condition. The first thing I did was lowering the front and adding a loop. That made it look like almost any other CB750 build you see around, so I decided to go for something different.?
Looking around the shop he found an old Suzuki fuel tank that had plenty of beef to it and stuck it up on the Honda backbone. Liking the look he realised what was now out of place was the spindly front forks and this set in motion the redesign of the entire front end. Using a set of Japanese superbike USD forks was the solution ...