Honda has just updated the beloved Grom, and the big news is that it hasn’t really changed much. The 2025 Honda Grom has shed the oversized ‘washers’ that adorned its bodywork, and adopted slick new plastics for a sportier look. But it’s the same adorable mini-moto under the hood?because why mess with a good thing"
The fine folks at California’s Steady Garage aren’t known for leaving well enough alone though. Run by Kevin Dunn, Jimmy Chen, Bahwee Suh and Duy Nguyen, Steady Garage’s specialty is mini-motos?or, more specifically, wild custom mini-motos. They’re gaga for the Grom, and they know exactly how to make it even radder than it already is.

Although we wouldn’t call the diminutive 124 cc, 12-inch-wheeled Grom a sportbike, that’s what Steady saw when it rolled into their workshop. Drawing parallels between its streamlined new design and the look of Honda’s actual sportbikes, they decided to transform it into a belligerent little streetfighter, while preserving its most distinguishing features. Steady’s standing in the mini-moto community (and their impressive parts store) has garnered them a wealth of contacts. So they flipped through their Rolodex and tapped the best in the biz to kit their Grom out with an eye-watering list of hop-up bits.

Gears Racing came to the party with a smorgasbord of suspension upgrades. First, they overhauled the front forks with aluminum tubes, black chrome st...