Stile Italiano: Giving the Honda C100 a retro Euro vibe
We can?t get enough of custom Cubs around these parts: we?ve featured more than 20 of the step-throughs over the years. But the Cub scene is now saddled with the same problem that builders of CB café racers and BMW airheads face?they?re all starting to look the same.
So how do you come up with something different, without sacrificing practicality or heading into cartoon territory" That was the conundrum faced by Deus? Bali outpost. But they?ve surmounted it with an elegant C100 that harks back to the style of classic Italian mopeds.
This C100 was built for a local client called Nicco. ?We?ve done quite a few Honda Cub conversions over the years,? says Deus manager Anthony McInerheney. ?But when Nicco approached us to do a complete build on a 1979 C100, we didn?t want to go back over old ground.? ?The streets of Bali are now littered with pretty people on Honda C70s heading from their yoga classes to their co-working spaces!?
?Perhaps the best thing we can say about the donor bike is that it?s one of the rarer C100s, and it had a full set of papers. Making it something of a unicorn find these days,? says Anthony.
It?s tempting to think all Cubs are the same, but there are differences. The concept was developed by a team led by Soichiro Honda himself, using a monocoque chassis stamped out of steel. Performance was always remarkably good, thanks to Honda?s focus on well-engineered and high-revving engines.
Despite the ?100? nomenclature, the capacity of the air-...
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