The Dark Art of Building a CB Cafe Racer

This is not your typical Honda CB cafe racer. ‘Fade To Black’ is probably one of the fastest middleweight vintage Hondas we’ve featured on this site—and with a Yamaha YZF-R6 front end, one of the best handling too. It’s a 1975 CB550 belonging to Grant Harvey, a Canadian film and television director. In his high school days, Grant rode around on a Honda 125 enduro—but since then, his only riding has been on his old man’s Harley Road King. “I turn 50 this year, so my wife suggested I should treat myself with something fun,” he tells us. “On a...