In stock form, the Honda CL350 is a mild-mannered street scrambler with 33 horsepower and oodles of vintage charm. The kind of bike you meet the nicest people on.
This CL350, however, is a very different beast. The clue is in the name?HonDeath?and the only figure you?re likely to meet while riding it is your maker. Because a two-stroke Yamaha Banshee ATV motor powers it, bumped up to 472cc and pumping out roughly a hundred horsepower.

This truly unhinged Honda cafe racer comes from Andrew Cecere, a Jaguar Land Rover technician based in Del Aire, California. He?s a multi-talented chap: ?I build jet skis, dirt bikes, street bikes, shifter karts, and anything with an engine,? he tells us.
As the enormous expansion chambers suggest, Andrew is a dab hand at fabrication as well as engine building. Probably because he was an aircraft mechanic in his previous life: ?I got burned out on night shifts and went to work for Land Rover, but I?m always busy in my free time.?
So what exactly is this mongrel of a motorcycle" It?s a 1971 CL350, although your bearings might be thrown off by the tank, which is from a 1968 CB350 Super Sport. Andrew has grafted on the front end from the same CB350 too, to give the bike more of a vintage look, and laced up matching Akront rims.
But let?s talk about that engine, since this machine has got to have the highest power-to-weight of any CL350 on the planet.

Andrew originally built the bike for a friend, keeping the 350 engine. ?Then we st...