Run the Streets: A Honda Super Cub with a skateboard rack
K-Speed have mastered the art of Honda Cub customization. It started when they got a call from Honda Thailand two years ago, asking them to build a custom Super Cub to celebrate the new model’s release. Since then, the Bangkok custom powerhouse has hit the accelerator?refining ideas and developing new parts along the way.
We’ve loved tracking their progress too, because we can?t resist seeing the world’s most popular scooter hopped up. K-Speed?s latest offering is the dopest yet; a brand new Honda Super Cub with a rally vibe and a skateboard rack. Call us 90s nostalgic, but we want this bad.
K-Speed aren’t just a custom shop?they’re also one of Thailand’s biggest aftermarket parts suppliers. So their custom Super Cubs are a mix of catalog parts, fabrication, and massive amounts of creativity, and are usually offered as limited run ‘made-to-order’ customs. This one’s the first of the aptly-named ‘Baja’ series, which they’ll be building just 59 of.
The most obvious change here is the front end. K-Speed have left the bulk of the front ‘fairing’ intact, but trimmed much of the bodywork away elsewhere. They’ve stripped off the Super Cub’s plastic steering ‘cluster’ too, ditched its headlight, and stripped down the OEM fork housings to refinish the legs in black.
Up front is a new twin light and grill setup, adapted from another bike. Combined with a stubby, high-moun...
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