Kingston's Honda CX500 Street Tracker is Pure 80s Magic

Most marques have a golden era—that time when they dominated a race series, etching into memory iconic motorcycles and liveries. Honda has more than a few of those. Take the legendary RS750: it hit the flat track circuit in 1983, and racked up multiple championships in the hands of Ricky Graham and Bubba Shobert. So when a customer gave his 1984 CX500E to Dirk Oehlerking of Kingston Custom, it was the RS750 that Dirk turned to for inspiration. The brief to Dirk was short: 'Build an unusual bike in an eighties style.” So he decided to emulate the tricolor mid-80s...

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