Eclectic Moto
Take a bit of Ducati, a dab of Triumph and a smidge of BSA and mix in a lot of Honda. Add in plenty of hand-fabricated pieces and you get this custom 1980 CX500. In fact, builder Bob Klemenchuk of Calgary says he nicknamed the project Eclectic Moto because of the wide variety of components he used in creating the machine.
Although Klemenchuk has been immersed in the world of performance European automobiles for most of his adult life, he’s always been interested in motorcycles. This, however, is his first complete custom two-wheeler.
“I do communications for startups,” Klemenchuk says of his professional life. “But I’ve always played with cars as a hobby and I’ve also worked on bikes for friends – either painting them or fixing broken plastics.”
An Odd Design
More recently, Klemenchuk began producing carbon fibre parts for
