“IT TAKES BALLS TO RIDE A HONDA CBX1000 FAST, LET ALONE CUT ONE UP”
FEW bikes scream engine as much as Honda’s CBX1000, on sale from 1978 to 1982. Six cylinders, six carburettors, six header pipes and 24 valves — if ever a model deserved the appellation motorcycle, it’s this mother.
It takes balls to ride one fast, let alone cut one up, but that didn’t faze either owner Luke nor bike builder Tom Gilroy in transforming a later B Model ‘Pro Link’ CBX into this lithe and purposeful, street-fightin’ café racer. Not only does it look the goods, it stops, steers and handles lightyears better than the original and goes like
