this is my mate grobbos latest custom offering. it started life a year or 2 ago as a stock ish xr650 honda, i remember taking him to collect it. since then its been rebuiolt from the ground up, i did a bit on his enginer, he did the rest, wheels, home made frame which in itself is a work of genius, as all the oil for the dry sump motor, and all the cooling water for the rads travels inside the frame to reduce the use of hoses, as is all the wiring. he built it as a crossover between a radical chop and the stripped down drag bikes of the 70's and 80's before everything got swathed in plastic, but as it was a honda race product, he quite liked the idea of using the honda repsol colourscheme, he designed and built the sprung and damped saddle which uses a mountain bike shock absorber to work, when the sun is shining, i will try and grab a few better pics of it outdoors in all its glory!
this was the first mock up to get the 'look' of it something like,
and these are the first build shots when all the engineering stuff was pretty much done, prior to a summer of shakedowns to make sure everything worked,
anyhow, then he decided he needed some luggage carrying capacity, but didnt want to build a rack, so he hit on the idea of a wheely bar as it was inspited by drag bikes, !!! and this could double up as a luggage carrier!!
