Some motorcycles lend themselves to customization, and need just a few tasteful mods to look great. But the Honda CX500 is not one of them. Sure, there’s potential there—but you have to know how to extract it.
Harry Blaise Fryer has cracked the code. Built with help from London’s Jackson Motorcycles, his CX500 is a textbook example of how to turn Honda’s plastic maggot into a handsome café racer.
Harry and his brother, Danny, have been obsessed with bikes since childhood. Danny lives in California now—but Harry works at The Bike Shed in London’s artsy Shoreditch district, where he’s surrounded by beautiful machines all day. The brothers had the idea to build a custom Honda after Harry’s 1978 CB550 was stolen.…