We can’t get enough of custom Cubs around these parts: we’ve featured more than 20 of the step-throughs over the years. But the Cub scene is now saddled with the same problem that builders of CB café racers and BMW airheads face—they’re all starting to look the same.
So how do you come up with something different, without sacrificing practicality or heading into cartoon territory? That was the conundrum faced by Deus’ Bali outpost. But they’ve surmounted it with an elegant C100 that harks back to the style of classic Italian mopeds.
This C100 was built for a local client called Nicco. “We’ve done quite a few Honda Cub conversions over the years,” says Deus manager Anthony McInerheney. “But when Nicco approached us to do a complete build on a 1979 C100, we didn’t want to go back over old ground.”…