Project Café: Motorcycle Classics BikeBandit.com Honda CB500

By Richard Backus
Published on August 26, 2008
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Motorcycle Classics/BikeBandit.com project bike: A 1973 Honda CB500, ready for the café treatment

It’s been a long year since we finished our last Motorcycle Classics build, transforming a 1971 Triumph TR6C from semi-derelict into a gleaming thing of beauty. Truth be told, our Triumph came out better than we could have hoped, and after the dust settled we planned to jump into our next build ASAP. Best intentions being, well, best intentions, the build we hoped to start months ago is just now coming together as we plunge into our next pseudo resto project, a 1973 Honda CB500 Four. A CB500? Is that a classic? Absolutely. CB500s are fab bikes, great to look at as well as to ride; although right now ours is fabulously ugly and only kind of running, as you can see in the video we shot and playing on our homepage right now.

But we don’t care, ’cause we’re pretty excited about the CB. Dreamers that we are, it’s easy for us to look past the ugly and broken Wixom fairing, the funky four-into-two aftermarket exhaust, the trashed fork gaiters and missing front brake caliper (it’s in a bag somewhere, I hope) and see a super-cool and café’d CB500, which is exactly where we’re going this time.

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