Kickstart turbo!

What it lacks in polish, this Honda CB400 Turbo makes up for with lashings of engineering cunning

Beneath the metalflake sheen of many customs is, well, not much – just a standard bike with a few bolt-ons. This Honda is the complete opposite – a hands-down victory for function over form that turns a classic Honda CB400F into a howling turbocharged sportsbike with FireBlade forks and an Aprilia RSV1000R rear end. In fact, that's underselling it, because almost every component is bespoke – Canadian builder Rick Denoon even made the wheels. ‘Yeah, I kind of wish 1 hadn't done that,’ he tells Bike from his workshop in Winnipeg. ‘Building those wheels was a ton of work – 1 promised myself I'd never do it again. There was a pile of swarf about four feet high by the lathe when I was pulling material off a chunk of aluminium to…

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BIKE United Kingdom (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2024

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