Ready to Wear: Kaspeed’s slinky Nighthawk 750
We?ve noticed an encouraging trend amongst custom shops lately: they?re offering made-to-order customs alongside their one-off specials. Diamond Atelier have enjoyed success with their Mark II BMW boxer builds, and deBolex Engineering have hinted at an imminent ready-to-wear range.
Limited production runs take a lot of the guesswork out of the custom business: both the builder and customer know exactly what they’re in for. Germany’s Kaspeed Moto have now thrown their hat in the ring, using the venerable Honda CB750 as a donor.
Don’t let the harmonious lines of this prototype fool you?it’s actually based on the graceless mid-90s Nighthawk 750. Kaspeed have somehow massaged it into an attractive shape, and in a way that makes repetition feasible. ?This is our #00 prototype,? says Kaspeed’s Jimmy Dressel. ?The whole bike was engineered to be a lot more ?reproducible? than the usual one-off custom build. It was a real challenge, to be honest?and we still have some points to improve for the future.?
In their Glauchau, Saxony workshop, Jimmy, his twin brother and his father pumped over 300 man-hours into the Nighthawk. For starters, it hadn’t been well looked after?so they had to clean out the carbs before it would even run.
They also rejetted the carbs, and fitted a set of DNA filters with leather caps. Plus they gave the Nighthawk a solid service, replaced a few seals and fitted a new chain and sprockets.
Luckily the actual motor an...
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