When we first saw images of this bike from Custom Works Zon, we assumed it was a restoration job. And it looked like builder Yuichi Yoshizawa would have to use all his legendary skills to get the knucklehead roadworthy again.
It turned out that we were wrong. This remarkable ‘vintage racer’ is actually a ground-up build: a client commission designed to evoke the spirit of classic V-twin competition machines, dents and all.
We’ve never tagged CW Zon as a retro-leaning shop, because most of their creations are sleek and highly–finished. But the best builders have a habit of throwing sudden curve balls, and so it is here. “I imagined an old racer, and imagined how it would get dirty,” Yoshizawa-san explains.…