The looks of the bike is not everybody's taste. The CX500 was ahead of it's time both technically and design when initially presented in 1978. Water cooled 80 deg V2 shaft driven, tubeless comstar wheels. Some say she was the most ugly looking bike on earth which gave her the nickname "Plastic maggot" or "Güllepumpe" (in Germany).
By coincidence I found her in a barn, covered with straw. This CX500 from 1982 just had 37000 km on the odometer, shaft drive, Honda reliability and the wide availability of parts are an argument for me to use this bike as donor bike in order to convert it to something cool such as a Café Racer, Scrambler or Tracker.
Let's see what comes out the next months...
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