CUSTOM HONDA CUBS
P96
Feature
aluminum cylinder produces 15
horsepower, so exactly twice
the power of the original C90
engine, with the help of a great-
sounding race exhaust with an
internal silencer, and comes
with a four-speed gearbox,
26mm Molkt carburetor, a digital
CDI with wiring loom and race
coil pack, a dual core foam air
filter, hydro vane oil cooler with
braided lines, banjo bolts and
washers, etc. Fatter Continental
KKS10 WW whitewall tires sit
on 17-inch Race Boy Wheels
from Malaysia, incorporating the
stock 150mm SLS drum brakes.
Due to his extra weight, Lee has
fitted Chinese-made higher spec
RFY shocks on his bike, which
are three-way adjustable for
spring preload, but new stock
Super Cub shocks on Hayley's.
Adorn the result with a host of
accessories and stickers—I liked
the "Built not Bought" one on
Lee's bike—and the result is two
pieces of practical and afford-
able motorcycle art just like the
other tens of thousands of such
bikes now being concocted
worldwide.
"I did think Lee was going
through a midlife crisis when
he went down to the garage for
eight weeks solid after we'd get
back from work, and I didn't see
much of him off the bikes," says
Hayley with a smile. "He didn't
like me going there to see how
he was getting along, but then—
voila, he's made me my very own
pink Custom Cub. It's definitely a
'hey, look-at-me bike' and people
can see you're having fun riding
it—we get a lot of looks! But
riding it after spending a day
aboard a proper motorcycle is
strangely therapeutic—it's really
relaxing just to putter along, and
put the smiles in the miles rather
than worry about the miles in the
hour. Actually, I stole that line off
Gibbo!"
James Gibson, aka Gibbo, is
the man who inspired this fast-
growing Custom craze in the UK.
Camp Hill Customs www.face-
book.com/pages/Camphill-Chop-
Shop/142478842487312 has a
shop stuffed full of Honda Super
Cubs in various stages of undress.
"I had a standard C90 Super
Cub sitting in my garage doing
nothing," explains Gibbo, 36. "I
thought I'd clean it up to sell it,
so I went on to Facebook to look
for parts, and somebody shared
a Malaysian Street Cub group on
there. I was stunned at what they
had—big wheels, big engines,
heaps of accessories, nothing
I'd ever seen before. They're
creating two-wheeled works of
art more or less freehand, with
a grinder in one hand and a
Couples that Cub together, stay together.
