Honda NX 650 Cafe Racer

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Honda NX 650 Cafe Racer

Dominator conversion by Louis

The plan was simple: MOTORRAD wanted to get whipped in Hamburg. The dominatrix who gave up on it used to be a Honda NX 650 Dominator. It turned out differently …

He looks so funny. It’s like taking a dog’s bone away. Hopefully he won’t bite. But Detlef Studemann is too well brought up for that. He has been working as a mechanic at Louis in Hamburg for over 30 years. The over-50 man is responsible for both gross and fine. And of course for special conversions like this one: a cheeky cafe racer who, in his first life, has a Honda NX 650 D.was ominator.

Honda NX 650 Cafe Racer

Dominator conversion by Louis

NX 650 Dominator relieved sturdy pounds: the box still weighs 139 kilos. And now she no longer looks like Cindy from Marzahn, but more like Kate Moss. Behind the project is Louis press man Kay Blanke. The Domi Cafe Racer is his baby. For the project, he traveled for weeks through Germany to collect parts and spent nights tinkering with the style and the technical implementation. According to his specifications, the mechanic Detlef lend a hand, flexed, reshaped and screwed around. Hey man, don’t look like that. We’ll bring the baby back to you too …

The silhouette and handlebars of this bike are slim

Great. Another unique piece under the ass. Priceless, not quickly reproducible, highly sensitive. Because: What if the buttons on my jeans leave delicate marks on the special paint? What if a few piston rings or gears in the tuned engine call for a boycott? I’m running out of road, do I sink the part? Or do two copulating wasps cause a dent in a top-speed collision? I’ll only say one thing: well insured, huh-huh! With Detlef, however, you won’t get out of the fat bowl.

It’s around 20 kilometers to the Speicherstadt at the port. Let’s see how fast the red racer sticks through the evening traffic. Sitting feels good at first, because the machine looks significantly lighter than what the scales say, and the handling is great. However: the Cafe Racer is not really comfortable: the bench is narrow and hard upholstered, the tank bulges are too delicate even for petite people. What the heck: A dominatrix also consciously wants to inflict pain. The red one sticks casually around tin pylons, you can hardly offend, because not only the silhouette of this bike is narrow, but also the handlebars. The tiny mirror anyway.

Pole position. On the left, two lowered types in the three-seater BMW, also lowered. Encouraging howl of a six-cylinder. We answer with the deep bass of the engine, which has been bored out to 675 cm³, which growls through self-made manifold plus pre-silencer and hurric-silencer. Even with the db killer plugged in, that sounds like more than the promised 62 hp. But it is not, unfortunately. It starts when it is green. The lower ones don’t have the slightest chance, but this conversion won’t tear my arms off. But there is always a lot of torque available. And that fits the concept wonderfully. "To get full performance, you have to remove the db-killer", tuning master Ulf Penner will advise a few days later on the phone. Too late. But the box sounds confident even with Killer. Ultimately it doesn’t matter. Style matters. And experience.

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Every wrinkled is a leap back in time to youth

The Speicherstadt flies by and the world is suddenly pink. Because Detlef and Kay did everything right here: the shapely rear in the flat tracker style fits just as harmoniously into the overall concept as the handmade aluminum tank. The geometry is also correct. A 19-inch wheel now rotates at the front instead of the original 21-inch wheel, and the former enduro has also been lowered: the fork tubes have been shortened by 40 millimeters, and a shorter Bitubo shock absorber works at the rear.

There are vehicles that are unsympathetic at first contact. This Domi-Cafe-Racer does the opposite. He is ecstatic. After just 20 kilometers you don’t want to give the box away. And suddenly I know why Detlef looked so grim: Because he also knows. So guys, just for a moment with friends: This machine is far too cool to spend the rest of its days as a dust collector at any trade fair or an eye-catcher in the hallway of your office building. Every ride is suddenly a leap back in time to youth. Back when it was all about pure driving. No disguise. No heated grips. No money. Unfortunately.

Total costs of almost 15,000 euros

Speaking of which: How much does it cost to turn the chubby Honda NX 650 Dominator into a cool, slim dominator? "2250 euros for the used vehicle with 8450 kilometers on the speedometer, 1750 the exhaust, 1100 for the Lammers tank, another 1500 euros for the paint job," Mastermind Kay Blanke will answer later. And further: "If you include small parts and workload, you come to almost 15,000 euros total costs."

You immediately feel important. But originally I wanted to become a dominatrix with this Honda NX 650 Dominator. Discarded plan. Driving is much more orgasmic. 30 minutes later the cold is under the leather jacket. The sunglasses also turn out to be a bad mistake. Because it is almost dark and we are cruising through the outback in Hamburg’s mighty bacon belt. The wheels rumble heavily over scarred paths. The spring elements respond well, offer comfort without being slack. It has to be like that. We turn onto one of these moorland plains, across the streets that are laid out like silver cords and lose themselves on the horizon. Sorry Detlef, but today you won’t get your bad girl back. Maybe tomorrow. But just maybe.

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Tuned: Ulf Penner elicited a whopping 62 hp and 72 Nm from the 650 single-cylinder. K&N filter and Bitubo shock absorb are exposed.

Technical data Honda NX 650 Cafe Racer

Based: Honda NX 650 Dominator, built in 1998; ENGINE: single-cylinder four-stroke engine, 62.5 hp at
6760 / min, 75 Nm at 4660 / min, 675 cm³, bore x stroke: 102.4 x 82 mm, Mikuni flat slide carburetor, K&N air filter, manifold and front silencer are self-made, hurric silencers;

Landing gear: Standard frame cleaned and rear shortened, fork: standard, stanchions 40 mm shortened, Wirth springs, Bitubo strut, wheels: front D.I.D. 1.85 x 19 with 100 / 90-19, rear D.I.D. 2.5 x 17 with 140 / 80-17, brakes: Brembo calipers (standard) with Lucas / TRW racing discs;

Changes: Lammers tank, Louis bench, Kinzlin seat cover, Louis headlight, T&T-instruments, LSL handlebars, magazine and Kellermann indicators, lithium-ferro-mini-battery from modellbaufuchs.de, engine tuning: Ulf Penner, paintwork: Schrammwerk; Dry weight: 139 kg;

Price: is not sold

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