FRENCH ENDURANCE

What should have been a months-long project spiralled out with COVID-19 delays, but it’s been worth it …

WORDS NIGEL PATERSON

ALTHOUGH he makes his living being a craftsman plumber, Seb, the man behind Seb Kustom Motorcycle in Western France might just end up a full-time custom bike builder, for this very special KZ650SR isn’t his first rodeo. Currently he has a Honda 600 Shadow he’s turning into a Bobber, a Suzuki GSX-R1100 being transformed into a “Dragster/Racer” and a Honda Hornet 600 which will be a rat-styled cafe racer. “… THIS MIX OF STYLES HAS PAID OFF, IT ATTRACTS A LOT OF ATTENTION DURING EVENTS …” For this build, Seb started with a 1980 KZ650SR, a factory custom … one of those oddball machines from the late 1970s where manufacturers would take their naked machine and ‘customise’ it with a king/queen seat, a fat rear tyre and buckhorn handlebars, then…

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