RESISTANCE IS FUTILE. Pop Bang Classics? ?Borg? Honda CB450
Written by Marlon Slack
Living next to the ocean is gorgeous, but as any surf-girted motorcycle nut will tell you, all that salty sea breeze just destroys motorcycles. It eats chrome, dulls aluminum and causes rust to flash up in weeks. So what?s the point of a polished custom if it?s just going to get eaten by the sea" Well, there?s not. That?s how Brisbane?s Pop Bang Classics came up with this, a post-apocalyptic 1971 Honda CB450 dubbed the ?Borg?.
The owner of the ?Borg, Kenny Smith, had been eyeing off a custom ride for a while. ?I love motorcycles and design, so it seemed like a nice project to have ticking over in the background,? he says. ?So through some friends I found a 1971 Honda CB450 for sale. It had been modified quite substantially from the original, however a lot of the modifications were backyard jobs that weren?t really worth salvaging.?
Then Mr Smith waltzed into Pop Bang Classics, a Brisbane-based motorcycle customiser headed by Justin Holmes. And Kenny knew what he wanted. It was all based around three specific criteria. ?Firstly, the environment around me,? he explains, ?I live in a coastal surfing town bordered by mountains and with a valley behind. It was important the bike reflected that. I was also inspired by machines in movies like District 9. A mix of dirty, rough metalwork exteriors and sophisticated electronics inside.?
?living in my area near the beach requires endless WD 40-ing to keep the corrosion away.?
The final reason was far m...
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