The coronavirus pandemic continues to shrink into our rear-view mirrors, but its ripples are still being felt in some ways. We continue to hear reports of how the global lockdown either put workshops out of business, or gave both established and aspiring custom builders endless time to bring their projects to fruition. The story of this Honda CB400 café racer includes a little bit of both scenarios.
It’s the work of Alex Style and his newly-formed workshop, Casita Customs. Alex runs Casita, which loosely translates to ‘small house,’ out of a garden shed in Jersey City, New Jersey, with his brothers-in-law, Victormanuel and Cesar Salazar. But he’s actually a British ex-pat who had been living in Shanghai right up until the pandemic hit.…