The Nightcrawler: A Honda CL500 scrambler by MOTOISM
If you’ve ever looked at the Honda CL500 and thought it resembled a small cruiser that’s been crudely massaged into the shape of a scrambler, you’d be right. Honda’s middleweight soft-roader borrows its main frame (and some of its style) from the Japanese firm’s awkward-looking Rebel 500 cruiser. But it’s a cute whip nonetheless?and its 471 cc parallel-twin mill is easy to get along with.
This Honda CL500 scrambler from MOTOISM proves that the plucky 500 enjoys a little tweaking, too. The Munich-based workshop collaborated with Honda Germany on the project, using the opportunity to create a small plug-and-play kit for the CL500 in the process.
Bolt-on mods are nothing new for MOTOISM. The crew made their bones with full-on custom builds but soon realized that there’s a market for parts that create maximum visual impact with minimum effort. It’s an approach that suits their contemporary modular aesthetic well. The kit for this particular Honda CL500 scrambler comprises just five pieces, all of which attach directly to the base bike without needing to break out an angle grinder. It’s your typical nip-and-tuck affair; a quick way to ditch the bulky OEM accoutrements to create something slicker and more cohesive. Accompanying the kit parts is a smorgasbord of well-judged upgrades?plus a radical livery.
The changes start up front, where a sculpted headlight nacelle wraps around the Honda’s stock LED headlight. MOT...
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