The Honda Hawk GT gets mocked up for custom seat and rear cowl…

After spending the most time with construction paper since the 1st grade, the basic outlines for the Honda Hawk GT custom side panels and rear cowl were mocked up and ready for metal.  The seat pan was cut from aluminum sheet, but for the panels and rear cowl, we opted for the more mailable steel sheet.  Using the paper cut-outs as a template, 22 gauge steel was cut with a nibbler.  Time to mock it up on the bike… Read More …

Beginning the custom seat mock-up for the Honda Hawk GT seat pan…

After a ton of scrubbing and degreasing on the Honda Hawk GT, it was time for some well-earned fun.  The next thing on the list was to begin work on a custom seat pan and rear cowl.  The rear section of this motorcycle will be the most modified, and so the process began of taking measurements, walking around the bike just staring, and hoping that some inspiration would come to us – in the form of a wicked tail section design… Read More …

The Honda Hawk GT engine gets scrubbed…

There are plenty of tedious, unsexy things that need to be done for a bike rebuild, but one of the things I was dreading most for the Honda Hawk GT, was getting the years of grease and grime off this motorcycle… Read More …

The Honda Hawk GT finally gets torn down…

A while back we got a hold of a version 1 Honda Hawk GT from our good friend Fletcher.  With so many other projects running simultaneously, we have not had a chance to get around to starting this build.  But finally, after a couple months of staring at the bike, wondering what we would do to it, we jumped in and began the tear down process… Read More …

The Honda Hawk GT starts to lose its outer shell…

There is often a moment with a new build, when you realize that you have gotten yourself into a heap of trouble.  Removing the top layer of the Honda Hawk GT provided just such a moment, revealing the neglect that lies beneath… Read More …