Neon ADV: North East Custom’s Honda NX650 Dominator
If you?re looking for an adventure bike to customize, the Honda NX650 Dominator makes for a compelling argument. It will go anywhere, do anything and last forever, without breaking the bank. Its only downside is its looks?which is why you won’t feel guilty tearing into it.
Brothers Diego and Riki Coppiello are out to make the world a more beautiful place, one custom Dominator at a time. They run North East Custom in northern Italy, and are nuts about classic enduro and rally racing. So although they build a wide variety of custom styles, they especially relish working on adventure bikes.
The brothers were approached by a couple of friends that wanted to commission a custom build together. Taking inspiration from retro rally raid machines, North East Custom hauled the Dominator into the shop and got going. ?The base was a 1994 Honda NX650 Dominator?the ugly one,? Diego tells us. ?So we changed the tank with a 1989 model, and built a new fairing.?
The older Honda fuel tank was a straight swap, but the rally-style fairing was built from scratch, using fiberglass. The two blend flawlessly into each other, giving the build a slick factory-like feel.
A pair of LED headlights sits behind a metal surround; the mismatched sizes are faintly reminiscent of BMW’s iconic R1150GS. There’s more lighting lower down, in the form of LED strips tucked into the fairing’s leading edge. A supermotard fender from UFO finishes off the front end.
Behind the windshiel...
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