VALKYRIE: A HONDA CX500 CAFÉ RACER BY NCT MOTORCYCLES

[weeksy]

https://www.bikeexif.com/honda-cx500-nct-motorcycles

[Mr. Dazzle]

Too quiet.

[Horse]

Well, that probably looks least like a CX of any of the customs.

Which is probably a very good thing



I like it

[weeksy]

Absolutely LOVELY thing if you ask me.... I'd love that in the garage.

[Count Steer]

I rather like that, with a couple of

What's that boxy lump underneath? Surely not a battery? The exhaust routing and cans doesn't quite work but they do look better in the front 3/4 view rather than side on.

Like the colour scheme and I don't even mind the bar end mirror.

[Mr Moofo]

That’s really nice .
I’d have that

[westers151]

Very nice

[v8-powered]

Rather nice - My only gripe is that IMHO the exhausts should follow the body line

[G.P]

Best CX custom I've seen in ages.
Its a yes from me

[Supermofo]

Can't help it. It's still a CX500

It's the inverse of Jonny Smith's sleeper Allegro. For that he is taking something that looks like a humdrum Allegro and giving it a 250-300 bhp engine.

What this custom does is take a Porsche and put an Allegro engine in it

[weeksy]

Can't help it. It's still a CX500

I've never seen one in real life, or sat on one or ridden one.

So my "yes" is based upon "does this look brilliant" and for me it's a yes... I have no idea how it may ride... but i really like it.

[Count Steer]

Can't help it. It's still a CX500

Phew. I thought I'd logged into a different forum for a while there.

[Skub]

There are some fine custom jobs based on the old plastic pig,this is very nice.

It was never a bike I wanted as a youth,but it was a very practical machine in many ways. Functional rather than boasting any form. I had one as a loaner for about a week. Dull engine and soft suspension. Typical Honda of the era.

[Count Steer]

There are some fine custom jobs based on the old plastic pig,this is very nice.

It was never a bike I wanted as a youth,but it was a very practical machine in many ways. Functional rather than boasting any form. I had one as a loaner for about a week. Dull engine and soft suspension. Typical Honda of the era.

It was practical and comfortable. I liked the thinking behind it, water cooled, shaft, tubeless tyres and easy maintenance ie adjusting the tappets was a doddle. It was underpowered given the weight it had to lug around (I did a lot of 2-up + luggage journeys and all year round commuting and had to mistreat it a bit at times ) but it's quite a nice engine, certainly no more mundane than a more modern, 800cc twin I've owned. Shed some weight, get the gearing right, get the suspension right etc and something like this one ^^ could be great fun.

[Buckaroo]

Absolutely LOVELY thing if you ask me.... I'd love that in the garage.

I have a real soft spot for CX500s, having owned one in the late 80s. Then my wife bought me a dooer upper thirty years later and it was a nightmare.

This, on the other hand, I would like very much.

[Dickyboy]

Nah, that just looks horrible to look at & doubtless horrible to ride, plus you'd have to deal with a multitude of hipster nobheads wherever you went.

[The Spin Doctor]

plastic pig

Plastic Maggot.

The Plastic Pig was a Reliant

Suspension may have been soft, but it worked OK for its era... I still have kittens remembering my brother sending sparks off the bottom of mine as he rounded a r/h corner in Kent. If he'd lost it, there were a row of brick cottages to slide into the front of.

[Skub]

plastic pig

Plastic Maggot.

The Plastic Pig was a Reliant

Troo dat.

[mangocrazy]

As a child I was scarred (but not terminally) by having to sit in the back of a succession of crappy three-wheelers after Dad gave up his motorbike and sidecar. The first was a Bond Minicar of evil memory. The bonnet flew off that going over Vauxhall Bridge, as I remember. That was followed by a succession of Reliants - Regals and Robins as I recall. I hated them. Thankfully after Mum spun one of them on black ice and flipped it onto its roof Dad saw the error of his ways and bought a real 4-wheeled car.

Just thought you'd like to know.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Anyone who didn't laugh at Clarkson driving a three wheeler has no soul.