K-Speed are well versed in the art of customizing pint-sized Hondas. We’ve seen them turn a Monkey into a cafe racer, and a Super Cub into a scrambler. Now they’ve put their wild imaginations to work once again, and built a slammed Honda Monkey bobber.
Released three years ago, the modern Monkey is based on Honda’s equally cute Grom?combining 1960s styling with modern amenities like fuel injection and disc brakes. With a 125 cc motor that puts out a whopping 9.2 hp, and a top speed of 56 mph, it’s hardly potent. But it’s popular as heck right now, because nostalgia.

K-Speed’s ‘Monkey Bomber’ is based on a brand new 2021-model Honda Monkey, and taps into both the Bangkok shop’s extensive range of aftermarket parts, and their fabrication know-how. Despite its diminutive size it’s a hard-hitting custom?and it’s brimming with clever mods. The big hook here is the Monkey’s radically slammed stance. K-Speed have modified the steering head to rake out the front forks, and bulked up the chassis with a pair of new frame downtubes. The forks look longer than stock, but they’ve actually been shortened by an inch and a half.

Out back, the crew extended the stock swingarm, then welded in a brace underneath it. They kept the stock wheels to hint back to the original bike, but wrapped them in chunky 12? knobbies. The short rear shocks are from K-Speed’s own Diablo range of parts.
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