The engine in the Honda CRF450X wasn’t designed to sit in a motorcycle that looked quite like this – originally designed for off-road work, the liquid-cooled, single-cylinder, four-stroke 449cc power unit was never meant for use on the asphalt. Despite being designed for trail and dirt use, off-road motorcycle engines often make fantastic powerplants for lightweight cafe…
The humble Honda CX500 is a motorcycle that everyone loves to hate, often referred to as the ‘Plastic Maggot’ the transverse V-Twin is widely considered one of the least attractive motorcycles ever produced by Honda. The benefit of this unpopularity is that the custom bike builders who choose the CX500 as their muse tend to…
This custom Honda CB250 by Exesor Motorcycles is one of the most well engineered parts-bin specials we’ve ever seen here on Silodrome. It’s fitted with a Honda CB360 engine that’s been bored out to 390cc, it has the swing-arm from a Honda CB400F, a Honda CL360 exhaust header, the front drum from a CB250K0, the…
The Honda VF1000R is considered by many to be the best of the now classic VF1000 model line produced by Honda between 1984 and 1988, the VF1000R was the first of the VF line to have gear driven cams (as opposed to the chain driven cams on previous generations) and was also the first to…
Purebreed Fine Motorcycles is a relatively new French Canadian custom motorcycle garage run by Guillaume Brochu, Guillaume is one of those non-traditional intellectuals who find fascination with seemly unrelated things but then somehow manages to pull them altogether. He graduated from college as a certified accountant before eighty-sixing Microsoft Excel for the life of a…
The above will take a few seconds to load, trust me when I tell you it’s worth it. Once it’s loaded, click the arrows to navigate. Technology never ceases to amaze me, especially when it gives me a chance to digitally wander the hallowed halls of the “Honda Collection Hall”, a three storey museum dedicated…
So usually we feature just 1 item per post here at Silodrome, today we have 5. Although if you combine the weight of them they’d probably amount to a single normal-sized motorcycle. These bikes and many others are coming up for auction with Bonhams on the 20th of October 2013. Monkey #1 This Honda ST50 Dax…
There’s something about the 1970s and MX that combined to create a perfect storm of retro, gasoline powered style that’s instantly recognisable and hugely appealing. These Honda MX jerseys have been designed to look exactly like the originals, they made from a modern, micro-birdseye vented moisture wicking fabric (rather than the old polyester), they have…
The humble Honda CB250 is a motorcycle that’s been surprisingly popular in the custom scene, the most famous is probably Much Much Go – a bike we featured all the way back in 2010 when Silodrome was just 3 months old. Since then we’ve seen a few others, most notably the CB250N by Ellaspede which…
The first turbo era in Formula One is widely considered to be a golden age in the history of the sport, this makes the 2014 Formula One season an exciting prospect as all teams are switching back to turbos for the first time since 1989. This film was created in 1990 and features Aryton Senna,…
7Seven Customs is a small one-man custom motorcycle garage based in the unlikely location of Slovenia, it’s run by the jovial Andraž Kopitar who started customising bikes because… well I’ll let him tell you in his own words; “I customize motorcycles and bicycles. I love working in my garage and on my bikes. I know…
The Acura NSX Coupe, or Honda NSX outside of the USA and Hong Kong, was a car built by Honda to directly challenge the Ferrari 348. On its release in 1991 the NSX took the world by storm and was quickly rated by the leading automotive magazines as superior to both the Ferrari 348 and…
