Scrambler builders often choose a Honda as the donor bike. The best starting points are the single cylinder thumpers, such as the tough XR series and the popular NX650 Dominator. Both have bulletproof and easy to work on engines.
Other builders will choose older but even simpler Hondas from the 1960s and 1970s, such as the vintage CB and CL bikes, which also have a good parts supply.
Here’s a selection of the best custom Honda scramblers from recent years.
We regularly wax lyrical about the virtues of the venerable Honda Dominator, and how its rugged simplicity makes it a prime candidate for customization. Many find it charming in stock form too, thanks to its quirky early-2000s adventure bike aesthetic. But not Žiga Petek. The man behind Slovenia’s Gas&Retro workshop ranks metal fabrication as his…
Read more »The faithful Honda NX650 Dominator has proved to be a popular custom-build donor over the years. It could be due to the legendary reliability of Honda thumpers, the NX650’s relatively simple layout, or the fact that it can be picked up cheaply. Whatever the reason, there’s massive potential there—and STG Tracker has just exploited that…
Read more »Trends come and go, but tradition is everlasting, and you’d be surprised just how long scrambler motorcycles have been around. The term harkens back to the earliest days of motorcycle racing when competition was an A-to-B affair, and there were too few paved roads to limit competition to tarmac only—a scramble, as they’d come to…
Read more »We’ve sorted our offerings from small to big this week, starting with the new Lego Technic Kawasaki Ninja H2R 1:8 scale model. From there, we step it up to a vintage Honda scrambler, a BMW R100 sleeper, and a Zero Engineering Type 9 shovelhead that’s up for sale.
Read more »Nothing cures boredom quite like motorcycles—and that goes not just for riding them, but wrenching on them too. This is why the…
Read more »If you’ve ever looked at the Honda CL500 and thought it resembled a small cruiser that’s been crudely massaged into the shape…
Read more »Adventure riders know that the more your motorcycle falls over, the less you worry about your motorcycle falling over. It’s an essential…
Read more »The reliability of Honda motorcycles is legendary. When this 1972 Honda XL 250 arrived at Mule Motorcycles, Richard Pollock had a long…
Read more »Moritz Bree is only 19 years old, but he’s already made a dent in the custom scene. He first blipped on our…
Read more »When I was a kid, my skateboard took me everywhere. It was a chunky Variflex (that’s all I could get in our…
Read more »Many Honda Dominator customs use the same template. Swap the fuel tank for something slimmer, trim the subframe and you’re halfway there.…
Read more »The custom scene is scattered with craftspeople that do more than just build awesome motorcycles. James Fawcett is a prime example. As…
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