1970 Honda CL175

A deliberately small-capacity bike for city traffic and runs to the surf, she's equally at home on the streets of Tokyo or by the sand at Bondi.

To create the desired proportions, handmade mounts discreetly lower the headlight, instruments, and battery on a shortened 1970 Honda CL175 frame. Parts bins were raided for sympathetically sized parts of SL, CB, and XL stablemates, while VW Beetle tail pipes cap long lengths of plumbing concealed in exhaust wrap. Finally, an inlaid-timber 70's skateboard makes the perfect seat, it's road-scarred tail guard now the stop light