RC Dept?s Honda Dominator: Big style from a tiny country
The modern custom scene has infiltrated the most distant corners of the world. This very slick custom Honda Dominator comes from the tiny European principality of Andorra?the 16th smallest country in the world. (At 181 square miles, it?s about an eighth of the size of Rhode Island.)
Despite its compact dimensions, Andorra is now home its first fully-equipped custom workshop: RC Dept, run by Roberto Conde. And he?s not alone in his passion for bikes.
?Andorra is full of motorcycle enthusiasts and collectors,? he reveals. ?There are many big private collections?some exceeding 200 bikes. You can find amazing bikes from Vincent, Matchless and Norton. And Triumph prototypes, official MotoGP bikes from the 60s and 70s, vintage off-road racers and much more.? Roberto?s Dominator could hold its own against many of those bikes. And as you?d expect from a former Dakar factory team mechanic, the build quality is tremendous.
Roberto says the budget was ?comfortable but defined? when this 1990-spec Dommie arrived in his workshop. He?s based in the mountain village of Santa Coloma, some 3,700 feet above sea level, and shares the space with second mechanic Pierre Carcouet and company manager Marc Casadevall.
Since the engine was almost thirty years old, RC Dept stripped it down and gave it a thorough overhaul, including a new camshaft. It?s also been treated to a coat of black paint on the cases, to balance the black bodywork.
The frame was heavily reworked too, with a new rear s...
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