WKND Warrior: A Honda CG125 scrambler from Portugal
There’s a tipping point where a hobby turns into a career, and Sérgio Almeida is sitting on it. Based in Portugal, he started WKND Customs while holding down a full time job as a designer?hence the name. But thanks to an influx of orders, he now he splits his daytime hours between bikes and freelance art direction work.
It’s easy to see why. This 1998 Honda CG125 scrambler is only his third build, but it’s so tastefully executed that you’d swear he’s been doing it for years.
It took some elbow grease to get it looking this good though, partly because the donor bike was a total wreck. ?The client bought the bike very cheap, and brought it to me dismantled in the trunk of his car,? Sérgio tells us.
?After putting it together I noticed that it was not straight. And given the bent bars, broken levers and scratches on one side, it likely had a crash in its previous life.?
The first job on the list was to sort out the front end, so Sérgio scalped the forks, front hub and disc brake from another bike and tried to make them fit. But once he’d fabricated a custom stem to fit them, he realized the damage to the frame was far worse than he initially thought.
So he hit pause, sourced a secondhand CG125 frame, and rebooted the project.
The ‘new’ forks were lowered internally, and their fender mounts were shaved off. Then Sérgio hand-rolled and welded up a pair of custom fork covers to bulk them up. They’re wider than th...
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