PROJECT TALOS: Honda CBX750 by Spitfire Speed Shop
Written by Martin Hodgson
You see them advertised all the time, usually on eBay, a project that is 95% complete according to the seller and just needs a couple of things to finish. Often they’ll even go so far as to claim just how much it’ll be worth upon completion and highlight the bargain you’ll be getting. But rarely is it true, 95% complete without any mention of all the real problems that prevented them from finishing the build in the first place. So when a bike with a similar tale arrived at the UK’s Spitfire Speed Shop, they decided to do it all properly this time around to create a stunning Honda CBX750 called Talos.
More than just a motorcycle shop, Spitfire does their own custom line of bikes as well as those individual projects for customers. While also stocking a full range of wicked merchandise, skate decks and even their own brand of coffee beans! So you truly get the full experience of the cafe racer lifestyle, but all of that is not much fun if you’re bike doesn’t run. And as the team tells us, ?This bike came to us in a sorry state bought by our customer off eBay with the intent to do the build himself.?
It had a custom seat, a huge set of twin pipes and some race tape around the dials but it was one of those builds that was definitely good from far, but far from good. And that was just the visuals, it was the mechanical side of things that was the real disaster. So the only way to get a great looking bike that ran li...
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