Motorcycle News - OTT: A Honda CBX1000 with single-sided suspension
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This CBX was built by Dutch shop WiMoto, and belongs to a gentleman named Reinoud Tjallema. The previous owner had already poured a lot of love and money into customizing it—but was then diagnosed with terminal cancer. So Reinoud promised he’d take good care of it, and never sell it.
“Reinoud had this crazy idea of building something with two single side-mounted wheels,” explains the man behind WiMoto, Wido Veldkamp. “So he asked me if this was possible. Of course, anything is possible—but this would take some engineering. Especially because it needed to be a road bike, and not only a show bike.”
“For the purists, this CBX had already been modified,” says Wido, “so we didn’t chop up an original bike! The previous rebuild was done in a style that was quite outdated, and also the geometry of the bike was far from what it should be.”
Then Wido started chopping and modifying the frame. That included fabricating a new subframe, and adding some trellis reinforcements to help the chassis cope with the torsional forces of the single-sided setup. With that done, it was time to build the actual suspension components.
It’s an impressive setup, matched to an equally complicated set of wheels.
Wido modified the front wheel further, by adding mounting points for a massive 440 mm perimeter brake disc. A set of Avon Cobra tires finishes off the running gear, measuring 120 wide at the front, and 180 out back.
The bike was rewired around a Bluetooth-enabled Motogadget controller, with the speedo and switches also coming from the German electronics brand.
All that was left was to relocate the CBX’s muffler. “The bike came with an original Kerker system,” says Wido. “It sounds awesome, but unfortunately the muffler was in front of the rear wheel. So we had to modify it.”
As requested, the eye-catching setup actually works out on the road, too. “When people see you riding this thing,” says Wido, “they all look surprised; ‘what the F is that?'”
Oh, and as you’d expect from a six-cylinder superbike from the 80s, this CBX sounds rather amazing at full tilt. WiMoto | Facebook | Instagram | Images by Floris Velthuis Motorcycles via Bike EXIF https://ift.tt/2Mf9b0c September 28, 2020 at 12:19PM Leave a Reply. |
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