People love a Honda CB550, don’t they? They’re solid, respectable mid-’70s standards—the kind where if you take care of them, they’ll take care of you pretty much forever. Plenty of ‘em got used and abused between when they were released and now (2022, as I write this), but that also seems to mean that many have been reborn as prime candidates for awesome custom builds.
Whether you just want to restore a sad and unloved CB550, or you’re planning to go in more of a restomod direction like the folks over at the Classic Octane YouTube channel, one thing is certain: You won’t know what’s what until you start taking things apart.
