PHIL LITTLE'S TOYS

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Honda CB450 Café I chose a CB 450 because as a mid-sized Japanese bike it is an ideal candidate for a custom project. Host bikes and parts are plentiful and cheap. A 450's period performance and handling are locked in time but who cares... a bike like this is just rolling art anyway. I started this 1972 CB-450 café in 2003. It was to be a showcase bike for my CR450 body kit and hard parts. The bike's completion, in 2010, came after the CR450 product line was purchased by Robert Ward of Concord, CA. This nice thing about this CR kit is that Honda CB/CL450 and others like the CB/CL 350/360s, need no or very little modification. Builders do not have to pull engines or paint frames. The kit is pretty much a simple bolt-on project. I went beyond what a normal owner would do with; the red frame (Ford High Performance Red), colored engine and prettied-up wheels. Get yourself a decent 450 and get these parts from OmarsDTR.com; tank, tail, fairing, café bars, bar end mirrors, taillight, shocks, 2-into-1 exhaust, graphics and other stuff. The CBs have very dedicated front fender mounts so I used a reshaped www.maier-mfg.com ABS café fender and mated it to the OEM CB450 fender brace. I think the magic of this project was the overall color balancing. The color scheme was stolen from Honda's early race bikes. On its first public showing, the bike won Best in Class at a Minnesota VJMC meet in 2010. The bike now (7/1/10) has about 2 miles on it. I guarantee you that 3 years from now it will only have 150 miles. I don't ride much (too busy in the shop) so if you want to own this puppy, you could offer me $4500 and it could be yours. (Shipping to your door is about $570)

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