In 1993, the Swedish psychologist K. Anders Ericsson hypothesized that it takes roughly 10,000 hours of practice to truly master a skill. Over a decade later, Malcolm Gladwell’s best-selling novel ‘The Outliers’ would confirm this hypothesis, pointing out that The Beatles spent roughly the same amount of time honing their craft in strip clubs around Hamburg before anyone knew who they were back in the UK.
So what do scholarly papers, public intellectuals, and international debauchery have to do with custom motorcycles? To put it bluntly, Rick Denoon estimates that, over the last 16 years, he’s put about 10,000 hours of work into this turbocharged Honda CB400F.
The story starts way back in 2006. Rick had just finished the most impressive build of his life—an Egli chassised Honda 400F that made the cover of the British magazine Classic Motorcycle Mechanics.…