1975 Honda CB550K - "Le Mans Special"
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 
Want to freak out a graphic designer? Make him pray to a higher power and start rocking back and forth on his fancy bent-wood chair. Then give him a job where he can only use two colours - safety orange and turquoise, and then watch him squirm. All the rules of colour theory say "no, this absolutely cannot work." And yet behold the beauty that is the Gulf Oil livery. Is that angels I hear? Beautiful retro motor racing angels playing heavenly engine music through trumpets that look remarkably like velocity stacks? Chris Trotter from Bozeman, Montana heard that music too. And that music said unto him "build the world's sweetest Honda cafe racer and paint it like the world's coolest race car, then send it over to those incredibly great guys at Pipeburn so that they may show it to the world." And beholdeth, he did. And it was good.
