Just when we think that the Honda CB750’s popularity is waning, we’re hit with another stellar custom build based on the venerable four-cylinder UJM. This time it’s the turn of Germany’s Himora Motors, who has just buttoned up this brawny Honda CB750 roadster.
Based near Jena, a city in the heavily forested state of Thuringia, Hiroma Motors is a custom motorcycle and bike apparel brand founded by Kay Riemann. A graphic and industrial designer by trade, Kay is a third-generation petrolhead who founded the company as a creative outlet. He’s joined by his father and experienced fabricator, Bernd, and an old school friend, Willi Schaup.
This 1994 Honda CB750F2 (known as the CB Seven Fifty in Europe) is the shop’s seventh build. Created as a personal project with no client or brief, the vibe is all-business—amplifying the CB750’s best features while trimming down much of its fat. The results are more impressive when you consider that the donor bike had been parked in a garage for six years, neglected and forgotten.
Himora brought the discarded CB750 back from the brink, gifting it a fresh set of finishes for its engine and frame to get it looking fresher than factory. The stock airbox is still in play, but the exhaust system has been swapped for custom-built four-into-two headers with Cobra mufflers.
The CB750 sits pretty on a new set of YSS rear shocks, with new springs and oil in the front forks. Himora kept the Honda’s original five-spoke wheels but wrapped them in burly Pirelli Scorpion STR tires. They also freshened up the stock Nissin brake system.
Moving to the bodywork, the guys retained the CB750’s chunky fuel tank and made a new contoured two-up saddle to complement it. The subframe was cut and shut, and a slim LED taillight was embedded into the back of it.
Custom fenders sit front and rear, with elegant handmade struts holding the front fender in place. Oval number boards act as side covers, emblazoned with Himora’s logo. The bike’s license plate sits on a swingarm-mounted bracket, to the left of the rear wheel.
Himora set the CB750 up with an aggressive upright riding position, with a set of low-rise street bike bars that should mitigate the potential for back problems. The bars are fitted with new grips and bar-end mirrors, and the original switches. The whole bike’s been rewired too, for the sake of reliability.
A small, center-mounted headlight pokes out the front. Just above that, a stylish Motogadget speedo sits in a custom-made bracket, with an offset that allows space for the stock ignition barrel. Rounding out the lighting are LED turn signals, discreetly mounted at both ends of the Honda.
Finished in shades of black and grey, with striking red highlights and exquisite tank badges to finish it off, Himora’s Honda CB750 makes a strong case for the platform’s perennial popularity. It’s also one of the shop’s most admired builds to date, because, as Kay explains, everyone who sees it either remembers the CB750 with fondness or owned one back in the day.
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