Written by Andrew Jones
Pip Davidson. As a man of few words, a self-confessed budget-build-a-holic, lover of small nitrous engines and the colour cream, you can imagine that his bike builds aren’t like most others. Not even a tiny bit. So when he told us his new bike was a faired Honda C90 ?Speedcub? racer whose name means ?strife?, our eyebrows were raised. Needless to say, they were raised again once we saw the bike in question. Meet ?Eris?, a wild custom Honda and the Greek Goddess of discord.

Pip’s proud to say that he’s been into bikes since the age of 5, and has been custom building in his garage at home for the last 7 years. ?As the kids flew the nest, my wages freed up and the bikes helped me with the extra cash,? he chuckles.?The bike immediately before this one was a restoration of a Suzuki RG500, and my previous Pipeburn appearance was with a ?48 Monet & Goyon S4J.?
?Eris? is a 1998 Honda Cub C90 that Pip bought for a couple of hundred quid a year or so ago. ?Since then it’s done pretty much nothing but sit quietly in the corner of my shed, waiting patiently for her turn to be hopped up, painted my signature cream colour and covered her with odd eBay trinkets.? The ?hopping? commenced with a 160cc race-tuned engine that was ported, Mikuni’d, ram-aired and freed up to breath on the back-end with a new ? and ludicrously beefy ? underslung exhaust.

A new pit bike headstock was unceremoniously cut and welded onto the Cub’...