The six-cylinder Honda CBX was released 10 years after the seminal Honda CB750 as a new halo model for the Japanese marque. The original CB750 had triggered an arms race for superbike supremacy between…
“Honda CB750 – The Birth of the Superbike” is a new short film from the team at Brightside Media, it gives a look back at one of the most important motorcycles of the 20th century…
This is an original Honda CB750 Sandcast, it’s called a “sandcast” because it was built in the first year or production when sand-casting was still being used to cast the crankcases. Honda quickly released that…
The Honda VF1000R was the high performance member of the Honda VF1000 model family. All models had an advanced V4 998cc double overhead cam 16-valve, liquid-cooled engine but the VF1000R had a series of modifications…
This short time-lapse film captures the restoration of an original 1969 Honda CB750 (Sandcast). Remarkably the restoration was completed by Sam Roberts in a small one-car garage, and he finished the bike to such a…
This is the new Tamiya 1:12 scale model of the also-new Honda Monkey 125. The new Honda was released in 2018 as a 2019 model, evoking the styling of the much loved Honda “Monkey”…
This series of 13 custom Honda CB1000Rs were built by official Honda dealers across the Iberian Peninsula, including Spain, Portugal, and the Balearic Islands. Each dealer was given a new 2019 Honda CB1000R, with a…
The Honda Monkey Z50R was released in 1979 as the new and improved Honda Monkey bike – so named because people looked like monkeys when riding them, with their knees up, arms out, and shoulders…
The Honda Hornet, known as the Honda CB600F in some countries, is considered by many to be about as close to the perfect daily rideable motorcycle as it’s possible to get. The Honda Hornet CB600F…
The Honda S800 Racing was a special and very limited edition model developed by Honda France as a turnkey high-performance model for aspiring amateur racing drivers. The Honda S800 The Honda S800 was directly based…
The 1988 Honda Africa Twin XRV650 was the marque’s first major foray into the market for adventure motorcycles. The bike was officially launched on 20th May that year – painted in red, blue, and white it was intentionally made to look like the Paris-Dakar Rally winning bikes.
This article was written by James Fawcett, the founder of Slipstream Creations. When possible we like to bring you the story of a custom in the words of the builder, to give unique insight into their…
