High 5 Honda Tremendous Cub, Monkey and Dax customs

We’re agency believers that small bikes equal large enjoyable. And we’re not alone. Simply have a look at the common-or-garden Honda Tremendous Cub—it is likely to be small, nevertheless it’s essentially the most produced motorized vehicle ever, with properly over 100 million offered worldwide.

Honda has extra pores and skin within the mini moto recreation than most. Over time, the Tremendous Cub has shared the limelight with different pint-sized legends, just like the CT125 ‘Postie’ bike, Grom, Monkey and Dax. And every of these has discovered their place within the {custom} scene, too.

We’ve rounded up our 5 favourite {custom} Honda mini motos to your viewing pleasure. Our record contains two Cubs, two Monkeys and a Dax. Bon appétit!

Honda Tremendous Cub by Ok-Pace Has anybody constructed extra {custom} Honda Tremendous Cubs than Ok-Pace? We don’t assume so. The Thailand-based powerhouse is exceedingly prolific; it helps that they’re a significant importer and producer of {custom} components, too. Most of their builds are both draped in gadgets from their very own ‘Diablo’ vary, or act as take a look at beds for brand spanking new components.

It’s exhausting to select a favourite Tremendous Cub from Ok-Pace (they’ve constructed so many), however this specific design stands out. The store took a pair of 2022-model Honda Tremendous Cub 110i donors, and turned them into little artwork deco masterpieces.

Completed in all-black and all-white, each Tremendous Cubs put on an identical bodywork. The wheels put on covers and sit below beneficiant ABS plastic fenders, the headlights have been relocated decrease down than inventory, and each bikes put on new handlebars with {custom} enclosures.

Every additionally wears new grips, ribbed facet covers, a {custom} seat and a Diablo exhaust muffler. Ok-Pace additionally modified their subframes, and prolonged their swingarms. So though they put on quite a lot of bolt-on components, these trendy scooters are removed from plug-and-play. [More]

Honda Cub by 2LOUD Customized Max Yicheng of 2LOUD Customized has labored on all types of bikes, large and small—and his work at all times impresses. This city-slicking Honda Cub was constructed for a detailed buddy, and stays certainly one of our favourite {custom} mopeds so far.

Max’s first job was to swap the pint-sized 80 cc motor out for a 190 cc Zongshen mill, geared up with a Keihin CVK30 carb. The body was tweaked to just accept the brand new engine, and to transform it to a hardtail setup. The forks from a SYM Wolf sit up entrance, and the Cub rolls on 18F/17R wheels.

The setup is way from commonplace although. Max transformed the fork to a single crown affair, added a mountain bike’s steering stem, and fabricated {custom} bars with an built-in baggage rack. Upgrades embody a Frando entrance brake, Frando levers and a hydraulic clutch conversion.

However it’s the little particulars that basically sing on this construct. There’s the two-tone leather-based seat, the elegant polished hinges that it mounts to, and the always-accessible gasoline filler neck. All work in concord to create essentially the most charming of grocery-getters. [More]

Honda Monkey by Kingston Customized The Glemseck 101 pageant in Germany is an occasion recognized for energy and pace. However when Honda Germany wished to make a splash at Glemseck a number of years in the past, they picked an unlikely candidate for a {custom} mission; the 125 cc Monkey. In any case, there’s no substitute for displacement—or, on this case, an absence thereof.

Fortunately Honda Germany had one of many nation’s most distinguished {custom} bike builders of their nook. Dirk Oehlerking of Kingston Customized, greatest recognized for his high-end BMW builds, was tasked with customizing the pocket-sized Monkey. And he knocked it out the park, with a uber-tidy scrambler that suggestions its hat to Honda’s heritage.

Dirk began by throwing on some components that had been taking on house on his workshop cabinets—just like the handlebars and foot pegs. Then he upgraded the fork internals, and mounted a set of latest YSS shocks on the again. A set of {custom} facet quantity boards added some classic race fashion, whereas a modified Kepspeed exhaust gave the Monkey a louder bark.

Sitting someplace between a 70s pit bike and the world’s cutest flat tracker, Kingston’s Honda Monkey seems flawless within the model’s conventional crimson, blue and white racing colours. A chunky seat and abbreviated subframe end it off. [More]

Honda Monkey by Bunker Customized Cycles Istanbul’s Bunker Customized Cycles has a mode that’s simple to acknowledge. Their builds are completely proportioned, and wrapped in ultra-classy liveries. However does that vibe go well with the Honda Monkey? Oh sure certainly.

The brothers behind Bunker, Mert and Can Uzer, custom-made the Monkey for a shopper that purchased it to take it alongside on his boat, however wished a glance that was extra basic. They began by modifying its stance, by means of a reducing package and new rear shocks from Racingbros in Taiwan. A pair of 12” spoked wheels accomplished the rolling chassis.

Different mods embody clip-on bars that sit on a particular bolt-on clamp, and smaller mirrors. There’s leather-based on the seat and {custom} facet luggage, with aluminum fenders at each ends. The headlight wears a protecting grill, and sits nearer to the bike now, courtesy of shorter mounting brackets.

However the true gem is the ‘Gorilla’ tank graphic. Bunker pulled in an area illustrator to design it, and to use it by hand. It’s one of many raddest graphics we’ve seen—on any measurement bike. [More]

Honda Dax by Zambrag Storage We don’t see sufficient Honda Dax customs. There are most likely tons of them on the market—however we don’t see them, and extra’s the pity.

This cheeky little quantity comes all the way in which from Bali. It’s the work of Zambrag Storage, who constructed it with a mixture of Tremendous Cub and Dax components, and dubbed it the ‘Lil’ Pussy Chopper.’

The engine’s from a 1966 Honda C100, wedged right into a modified Honda Dax body. A brand new gasoline cell sits contained in the stamped body, with a custom-built girder fork propping up the entrance. The entrance wheel’s a brakeless 17” merchandise, whereas a ten” wheel from a classic two-stroke Suzuki car sits on the again. There are not any rear shocks—only a pair of inflexible struts.

Lined in an eye-popping paint job, with white accents on the grips and seats, this Dax chopper is completely bagus. We’d experience it… would you? [More]