Comments on: Honda CBX – Spondon Frame Streetfighter

By: Johnny du Pont

Johnny du Pont — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 22:19:39 +0000

I don’t know why Mr. Westby got so much coverage on his Spondon, I ordered mine in March of 2000 and got it in December of 2001. I had it up and running by July of 2001, tagged titled , and insured. submitted photos and info to multiply magazines and never got an article till I took a CD of photos to the Streetfighters show in Shefield England and handed it over to Mr Dave Manning. Mine was in iSSUE # 138 OF STREETFIGHTERS MAGAZINE. Mr Westby claims 375 lbs for his, mine weighs 460 fueled and ready to go, now, granted I don’t have carbon wheels, Olins forks, and the Spondon single sided swing arm, and I do have a Magnuson supercharger on it, but maybe he was reading kilos not lbs?

By: Mayakovski

Mayakovski — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:54:49 +0000

Sweet

I Want One.

By: bob

bob — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 17:38:55 +0000

i remember when sport rider magazine used to do a feature similar to the cycle world american flyers section. that was the best part of the magazine and now its the best part of cycle world. nice to see someone building something thats not a cookie cutter design like everyone elses.

By: zipidachimp

zipidachimp — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 09:30:48 +0000

get ‘em while they’re hot, before they’re dumbed down!

By: hoyt

hoyt — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 04:29:16 +0000

Yep — I agree it is a golden age. But, we could be living during a time where we have the golden age doubled up with the “second-coming” of the motorcycle. In other words, while we are happily running around on petrol-powered bikes, we also have little hydrogen-powered bikes just starting out (comparable to the little peddle-engined motorbicycles 100 years ago).

Imagine living back then with all the new ideas —- so many people creating and selling so many different bikes. I look forward to seeing a portion of that ambition while still having the current crop of OEM and custom bikes to ride.

Good engineers will find a way to still offer great performance using a very clean petrol-powered bike with high mpg, for the rest of our days at least.

So, we have the golden age and then some. (just keep squashing the illogical arguments of banning high performance bikes)

I’d like to see a Spondon chassis around a new Stratosphere engine