Turning the CB250 RS into a vintage-style Honda trail bike
We love seeing ugly ducklings turned into graceful swans. After all, anyone can make a Ducati SportClassic look good?but a cheap 1980s commuter bike is a completely different ball game.
This ice-cool little scrambler started life as a Honda CB250 RS, a plasticky but well-made runabout that was popular in the UK and Europe. You can still find them on the secondhand market, and they?re a bargain at about US$1,500.
That makes the air-cooled single perfect for a low-cost, big-value custom job?and Mokka Cycles have taken the bait.
Mokka is the nom de plume of Ãrpi Bozi, a young programmer from Hungary. For the past five years, he?s sought refuge from the digital world by building beautifully finished customs.
?It?s a cheap but quite ugly bike,? says Ãrpi. ?So the idea was to turn it into a vintage-looking trail bike.? A CB250RS only weighs around 148 kg wet (326 pounds), and the suspension and brakes are excellent. So it?s nimble enough for trails and green lanes.
The cosmetic surgery has been drastic, though. Ãrpi started by binning all the plastics, and then positioning a 1970s-era Suzuki TS185 gas tank on the frame. It?s been tunneled to make it fit neatly.
Then Ãrpi replaced the entire rear frame with new tubing, and topped it off with a plush black leather seat with plenty enough room to move around on.
The engine is a ripe 37 years old, so Ãrpi has rebuilt it back to factory specs using genuine Honda parts. (It?s essentially the same engine as found in the...
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