The best adventure bike is the one you already have. That’s the theory behind this rugged custom Honda CX500 from BJ English at Brick House Builds in Missouri. Equipped with knobbly tires, crash bars, a luggage rack, an auxiliary fuel cell, and the most ground clearance we’ve ever seen on a CX500, there’s no doubting its intended usage.
There’s no denying the Honda CX500’s inherent quirkiness and the challenges that it poses to potential customizers. But BJ wasn’t too fussed about making the awkward CX500 look pretty. Instead, he needed to make it functional—because his client intends to use it as a bonafide adventure bike.
“The project arrived as an actual basket case,” BJ tells us. “The bike itself is a 1982 Honda CX500 Custom that the customer had previously started working on, in hopes of turning it into a scrambler, before deciding to contact me to see the project through to completion.”…