Well hello guys. I have been away for a LONG time. A LOT has changed here. First and foremost I am no looking cooking professionally (for now) but I have been cooking stuff up in my shop. I've been busy building my bike business Kitchen Moto Custom for the last 8 months. I built a cl350 modded scrambler last fall. Then I jumped right into another cb750. You can check out that stuff on Instagram and Facebook. In the meantime I got to build the cb750 restomod/cafe I've been wanting for 2 years now.
I am going to have to Quentin Tarantino this thread since I didn't document anything the first go around. I have been extremely busy with work, bike building, house projects, shop improvement and my girlfriend so I haven't had a chance to put together a build thread. Better late than never, Nox was completed in June 2015. I will included a few before shots and some after shots. Then I will be adding in the details! Stay tuned and thanks for reading.
I picked the bike up in January for $600 running with a clean title up in North Carolina. Here she is when I got her home. The previous owner "tried" to do some cafe work and quite frankly mutilated it. The only thing I used that he made was the battery box, and the bracket to fit the banged up F tank on there. It was a great price and the engine was superb, only 12k original miles. It didn't leak, weep, or smoke. Don't fix what isn't broke!
One of the most important aspects to me was creating a modern looking bike that Honda might manufacture today. I wanted to utilize the leaast amount of chrome possible, while using muted metal colors. I brushed each piece of aluminum to get this effect, and we used muted greys, with a hint of gold and plenty of black. I wanted something that at first glance looks really nice and clean but not too busy. When you get closer though I want all the details to pop out. One of the first and most prominent things you will notice is all of the hand engraving done on most of the aluminum pieces. This was done by my friend and jeweler Omar. He has an incredible talent and eye for detail. He engraved the carb tops and bottoms, tappet covers, fork ears, gas cap, gas lid latch, a few vanity pieces, brake caliper, levers, tach plug, and even the chain master link clip. There are probably a few more pieces that I am forgetting. To go along with that modern look I went with a trucklite LED headlight and adjustable shorty GP style levers with a radial master cylinder and stainless steel brake hoses. Lot of Joker Machine parts were used like the starter cover, brake stay, brake adjusting arm, brake adjuster nut, wheel adjuster nuts, steering stem nuts, and fork caps. This is just a taste, let me get some pictures up and I will start the actual build thread!
Hang tight guys, I am posting more
