There are around 2.5 million motorcycles on the road in Pakistan. Which sounds impressive until you learn that the population is over 210 million?and most of those bikes are tiny Chinese- and Japanese-made commuters.
The custom scene is virtually non-existent, because the import duty on motorcycles is a whopping 50%, and there are sales taxes on top. Which also explains why there are only about a dozen Honda CB750s in the whole country.

This is one of those CB750s: a 1977 Super Sport owned by reader Haris Aziz of Islamabad. And it?s the first bike we?ve featured from the world?s sixth most populous country.
?I had no plans to make a cafe racer: I just loved the model as it is,? Haris tells us. “This Super Sport was a runner, but in poor condition. Most of the fittings were either broken or covered in surface rust.?
Haris rode the CB750 for a year and resisted the temptation to mess with it. ?I absolutely adore the cafe racer look, but with imports banned, the remaining CB750s are the last of the breed.?
But when he couldn?t delay the repairs any longer, Haris found out that a stock restoration would cost too much?due to the poor rupee-dollar exchange rate. He decided to have it custom built.

?I chose Zeeshan Motorsports in Karachi to do the job,? he says. ?They have exquisite attention to detail and experience with big Japanese bikes.? Karachi, by the way, is a 20-hour, 900-mile drive from Haris? home city.
Haris designed the bodywork (?using my horrible Photo...