1992 Honda CB250 - Rene9ade Custom Motorcycles

So, by now you'll all know about Throttle Roll, and if you're in Sydney next weekend you'd be crazy not to come along and join in the fun. But maybe you are crazy - crazy enough to ask ‘why?’ Well here's exhibit A in your mental health review. It's a unique take on a late model Honda CB250 from Rene9ade Custom Motorcycles, and it along with more than 40 other killer builds will be making an appearance at the show.

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Classified Moto's '92 Honda CB250 - “MoHawk 250”

Name the most uncool motorbike you can think of. No, it's not a lime green Harley chopper. Or a billet-covered Hayabusa with an extended swing arm. Hell, even the humble Honda CT110 has some redeeming features if you think about it. Oh no, if you really want to plumb the depths of icy, frigid lameness you'd be very hard pressed to beat the Honda CB250 NightHawk. In Australia, it's (in)famous as the bike the public servants brought in their thousands for the government's Motorbike Learner Schools and, just when you thought there was nothing more “the man” could do to degrade a bike's reputation, they went and welded giant protective crash frames onto them. Personally, I couldn't think of a worse bike as a starting point for a custom build. Which makes what you see here all the more amazing. Meet Classified Moto's “now we're just showing off” masterpiece, the “MoHawk 250”.

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'73 Honda CB250 - ‘Isabel’

Ahhh, steampunk! How I love thee. Let me count the ways. Lighter-than-air warships. Wind-up robots that make cool whirring sounds. Weaponised steam locomotives. Vast subterranean cities built by armies of leather-goggled minions. Gunpowder-driven external combustion engines driving giant tanks. Analogue push-button typewriter computers cooled by water and made of brass. Soldiers driven by steam boilers and programmed by punch cards. Giant steel submarines filled with grand copper organs and suspended walkways and stained glass portholes and rivets. And, well, that would have been about it for my personal steampunk list of coolness if you had asked me last night. But tonight it's different. See, my imagination has just been expanded by exactly one hyper-cool machine, but this one's not a special effect or a pen and ink drawing. It's as real as you or I. Her name is Isabel and she's the product of one particularly over-active imagination that lives inside the head of Tasmanian Andrew Knott.

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