SOME bikes hit you straight between the eyes. One glance is all it takes. It’s been a while since a Honda CX500 took our breath away, Queenslander Garth Allison’s bright yellow 1980 model that graced the cover of Retrobike #33. Well, here’s another, built on the other side of the world by Asen Zahariev and his team at Bulgarian custom workshop Tossa R.
“THE CX500 SURE WAS A QUIRKY BUGGER, BOTH IN STYLE AND ENGINEERING”
Asen describes the donor