Motorcycles and surfing are uneasy bedfellows. If you like to ride your bike, you?re statistically more likely than most to enjoy riding the waves too. (A fact that the organizers of the Wheels & Waves festival in Biarritz know very well.) But on the other hand, a motorcycle is rarely the ideal vehicle to transport your log.
Over the years, several custom shops have added surfboard racks to their motorcycles, with varying degrees of success. Many will have taken inspiration from the Deus outpost in Canggu, Bali, where they?re more likely to be waxing their boards than moustaches.

?We decided it was time to revisit something we had done before, but with a slightly different approach,? says Deus? Tom Hawkins. And so we have the ?Sea Sider??with the surprising choice of a humble Honda Super Cub C70 as the base.
?We wanted to build ourselves a new surf-commuter for around Canggu,? Tom explains. ?Previously, it would have needed off road capability, but the roads in the area are now smoothly paved. So we decided to give this new build more of a ?bicycle feel? to it.?

The ?Sea Sider? started its life as a 1974 C70. But a mere six horsepower, even at a heady 9000 rpm, didn?t cut it. So Deus have dropped in the engine from a 1995 Honda Astra?a pretty bog standard scooter in Bali. ?This gave it a touch more oomph and the convenient bonus of an electric start.?
To add lightness to the little C70, Deus then sourced vintage bicycle pieces from a neighboring island and re...