It takes a healthy imagination to create a good custom motorcycle. You need the ability to look through a stock bike and see its potential. Or, if you’re Bryan Moses, look at a rusted pile of bits and visualize this brawny Honda CB750 cafe racer.
Bryan’s a hobbyist based in Geneseo, New York. Most of the time he works out of his home garage, but when that doesn’t cut it, he moves his projects to his family’s collision repair shop up the road.

According to Bryan, there’s no ?cool story for the build or anything,? but that’s not entirely true. So we pressed further.
?I picked this CB750 up as a parts bike for $50 a few years ago,? he tells us. ?I was going to scrap it after I took off what I needed?it was really nasty and rusty. But with the frame and motor being in ‘fair’ shape, I couldn?t bring myself to toss them.?
Even though the engine and frame were usable, they weren’t perfect. So Bryan tore into the 1974-model motor, rebuilding it with an 836cc kit. He also swapped the airbox out for a set of velocity stacks, and re-jetted the carbs to match.
The big four’s sporting a new exhaust system too, hand-made from stainless steel. Bryan designed the headers to join and loop around under the bike, exiting on the left. ?Rather than having the exhaust dump out the back,? he explains, ?I thought this might help keep all the chrome tubing looking tight and together.?

Bryan’s CB750 was in dire need of new ...