Dust Kicker! Justin Steyn's Honda RS600 flat track bike

Flat track racing is all the rage in Europe and the States, but it hasn't really caught on in South Africa yet. There's no official race series there—just the occasional 'run what ya brung' shindig, where the emphasis is on fun rather than hard-nosed competition. That hasn't stopped Johannesburg local Justin Steyn from building his ideal flat track rig though—a replica of Honda's late-80s RS600 race bike. The RS600 was the baby brother to the dominant RS750, purpose-built for short tracks and TT circuits. It was never a production model, and there are very few examples out there, but it...

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