The story starts like most bikes featured on these pages. The whole bike was stripped to a bare frame and thoroughly gone over; from the engine, pistons, valves and anything else that looked like it needed a little love. The frame was shortened and re-braced, the swing arm was stretched by 3 inches and the bike was lowered at the front by 1.5 inches to compensate the geometry as much as possible. Josh also added adjustable nitrogen rear shocks, a 2-1 exhaust wrapped and pushed into a reverse cone, a Suzuki GSX R1000 steering damper and the mandatory clip-on bars for a bike of this vintage. A custom made fiberglass Thruxton mini fairing was fabbed, plus a slick fiberglass seat and tail - all painted in Repsol colors by Josh himself.
With a spec list longer than Casey Stoner's win sheet, we think Josh
has created something special building this unique Honda Repsol CB and
we're not the only ones who think so - the build also managed to land
Josh a part time job at a local custom bike shop called Monkey Fab. This
CB500 might not be able to keep up with the super bikes of today, but we
reckon it has just as much kudos or more. Don't you think?
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