If you’ve ever looked at the Honda CL500 and thought it resembled a small cruiser that’s been crudely massaged into the shape of a scrambler, you’d be right. Honda’s middleweight soft-roader borrows its main frame (and some of its style) from the Japanese firm’s awkward-looking Rebel 500 cruiser. But it’s a cute whip nonetheless—and its 471 cc parallel-twin mill is easy to get along with.
This Honda CL500 scrambler from MOTOISM proves that the plucky 500 enjoys a little tweaking, too. The Munich-based workshop collaborated with Honda Germany on the project, using the opportunity to create a small plug-and-play kit for the CL500 in the process.
Bolt-on mods are nothing new for MOTOISM. The crew made their bones with full-on custom builds but soon realized that there’s a market for parts that create maximum visual impact with minimum effort.…