January 15, 2021
Bernie Veon's 1980 Honda CX500
For a year, we searched for the perfect donor machine. When we came across this 1980 Honda CX500 in a barn in Northeast Ohio, I fell in love. Sure, with all the yellow gaudy trim, it lived up to its “plastic maggot” namesake. But everything was there to transform it into a lean, mean brat. We trailered the bike home to Florida and I sold the Bonneville the following week—a-la Cortes burning the ships after landing in Veracruz. I was all in.








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