This Honda CB750 cafe racer by Steel Bent Customs is a fantastic example of minimalist custom motorcycle building, there’s nothing on the bike that doesn’t need to be there from a purely functional perspective and I kind of think that this is how it should be.
This minimalist Honda CB750 cafe racer is a quintessential Steel Bent Customs motorcycle, all the unnecessary nonsense is in the garbage leaving just a raw, almost skeletal motorbike that’ll happily carve up mountain roads with the best of them.
Steel Bent Customs based out of Tampa, Florida, build some of the most approachable and affordable café racers you’ll find anywhere in the USA. This is their latest creation, it started life as a stock Honda CB400T however she now has the rear end of a CB650 and the front end of a CB550…
Michael Mundy is the owner of Steel Bent Customs based out of Oldsmar, Florida. His garage has a track record for building bikes that are the distillation of modern café racers, I know that term is over used nowadays but it used to refer to bikes that were bought as stock, stripped back as much as possible to save weight and then modified only in ways that would increase performance. Very much like this Honda CB500.
This 1976 Honda CB550 Super Sport has been kept true to form by Steel Bent Customs, the addition of a few minor and very tasteful modifications have created a bike that would fit in perfectly in both the late-70’s and the present day.
Steel Bent Customs is turning out some of my favourite custom motorcycles at the moment, bikes like this Honda CB550 are a great testament to the garage, believe it or not this café racer is part Honda CB550 and part Yamaha FZR600.
This beautiful Honda CB550 Café Racer by Steel Bent Customs is just about the picture perfect motorcycle as far as I can tell. I am biased though as I love the Honda CB550 even in stock form, so this immaculate café build is an incremental improvement on a motorcycle I already loved.