Two heavily modified CB550s in one week: are we seeing a renaissance of interest in Honda?s classic middleweight" If the new builds coming through are as good as this street scrambler from Florida?s J. Webster Designs and the Hookie Co. cafe racer, we?re all for it.
Justin wowed us five months ago with an amazing CB750 cafe racer, and he?s just proved he?s not a one-hit wonder. This latest creation is a 1974 Honda CB550 that he?s called the City Scrambler: ?It?s a stripped-down, lightened, shaved and smoothed fun machine designed to tackle anything the city can throw your way,? he says.

?I took inspiration from the early factory scramblers offered by the manufacturing big boys in the 1970s?as well as the factory offerings of today.? Justin takes an unusual approach when visualizing his builds. He likes to imagine what a contemporary prototype would have looked like, if displayed on a manufacturer booth back in the day.

?If Honda?s design and engineering crew in the 70s had built a four-cylinder ?scrambler? prototype meant for the city, I believe it?d have looked something like this,? says Justin.
The detail in Justin?s work is certainly on a par with your typical factory job?and even better than some of the slightly wonky ?concepts? we?ve seen at moto shows.

At the start of the build, Justin dismantled the CB550 down to the last nut and bolt, giving close attention given to every part. The frame was stripped and shaved of all non-essential weight and bracketr...