When you spend your days poring over cafe racers, scramblers and trackers, it’s easy to forget how alluring an original classic can be. Oftentimes it’s a good resto-mod that hits the mark?a bike that strikes the balance between vintage charm and tasteful, modern upgrades.
Rawhide Cycles have this down to an art. Their first bike, a classy Honda CB750 dubbed the ‘Golden Goose,’ immediately captivated us. Now they’ve taken another stab at the CB750. Let?s say hello to ‘Sweet Jane.’

Rawhide are based in Nampa, Idaho, but this commission came from a customer some 800 miles south, in California. “He came across the Golden Goose when we had it listed for sale,” says shop boss Brandon Wurtz.
“He called right after we sold it, so we discussed the possibility of building something similar, but taking it further. Six months later, Sweet Jane was born.”
“Tom [the customer] was amazing to work with. He gave us a lot of freedom, but also had a lot of input and ideas. The smaller tank and lots of other important details were Tom’s contribution.
?Everything on the bike was intended to be period correct in appearance. We wanted to build a CB750 restomod that could potentially have existed in 1975.”

Rawhide take the ‘resto’ bit pretty seriously, so there’s not an inch of this CB750 that hasn’t been touched. Every fastener, washer, spring and fitting was zinc-plated, chromed or...