Little Wonder: Another knockout Honda Cub from 2LOUD
They say you should never do business with friends. Yet the custom scene is full of builders whose friends who have become clients?and vice versa. And if star builder Ma ?Max? Yicheng at 2LOUD Custom happened to be your friend, wouldn’t you be tempted to commission something"
Max and his partner Lu Yongyu have kicked out a solid stream of commercial hits already, but their most recent two builds were done for their nearest and dearest. This bodacious Honda Cub was built for a close friend (it’s his second 2LOUD custom), and at the same time, 2LOUD built a Cub chopper for Max’s girlfriend [below left].
Both scoots turned out great, and what’s more, this Cub’s owner had zero creative input into the project. So we’d say the social circle is still intact. The scooter started out as an early model 80 cc Cub, but it now has a little more pep in its step. That’s because the Taiwanese shop ripped out the motor, and crammed in a 190 cc Zongshen mill.
It took some frame mods to fit it, and the guys also welded in a new intake manifold?matched up to a Keihin CVK30 carb running a pod filter.
The exhaust is a custom-built stainless steel affair. ?It?s not noisy while idling,? says Max, ?but gives great performance.?
2LOUD did more to the frame than just mod it for the engine, though. They’ve ‘hardtailed’ it too, and added some reinforcing members up top. The changes were designed digitally first, before Max and Lu...
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