Everyone has an opinion on the Harley-Davidson Street 750, but that hasn’t stopped it from being a big seller for the American marque. And most customizers who have spun spanners on the Street will say one thing: lurking under all the nitpicks is a pretty decent motorcycle.
Which is why Colin Cornberg of Number 8 Wire Motorcycles wisely recommended the Street 750 to his client as a donor for this project?even though it wasn’t part of the original brief. And how the project came to life is a pretty interesting story too…

?A few years back, I built a 1981 Kawasaki KZ750 parallel twin for a gent in Montana,? Colin tells us. ?But his new wife wouldn’t let him ride it, so he put it on eBay. My new client?from Houston, Texas? bought that KZ, and fell in love with it. Then he asked me to build him his ‘own’ custom.? ?He initially wanted a CB750 or similar. But I worked on those bikes for years in my former service garage in Missoula, so I talked him into something with a little more reliability and performance. He was understandably very skeptical of the Harley-Davidson Street 750 to begin with, but after seeing a couple of sketches he was on board with the idea.?

Originally from New Zealand, Colin now lives in the US, near the small town of Philipsburg in Montana. ?It’s a town of about 800 people,? he says. ?It’s the middle of nowhere.?
?I’ve been building bikes and fabricating out of my 16′ x 20′ garage for ...