Take A 1976 Honda CB 550 Engine,

and a 1972 frame, 

 add lots of hard work and the ideas of Kyril Dambuleff and You have this dream bike that He calls, ‘Bikini’,

 the bike started with just an engine that had been rebuilt by Kyril from the ground up, ‘It sat on my workbench for months, taking up much needed space,’ he says. ‘I thought about displaying it somehow, perhaps in my office, but what could be better than an original frame?’

 Kyril went about accumulating all the parts over the coming months – the frame, wheels, exhaust pipes, forks and tyres and all the other sundries that come from assembling a ground-up bike, but the focus was to remain the powerplant,

the finished tank slopes up hard on the right hand side to expose the spark plug leads and the coil, on the left it retains something close to the original lines, ‘The idea was to showcase the engine and have all of it in complete and unobstructed view with nothing hidden,’ he explains, ‘Everything else had to conform accordingly, hence the asymmetrical tank and all the other exposed components which shows what makes a motorcycle tick, it’s like one of those skeleton watches in which the maker has left only what’s essential and tried to reveal as much of what makes the watch tick as possible’ 

now this is also really neat, the exhaust headers, it’s not polished stainless steel but Cerakote applied with a mirror finish, Cerakote is actually a polymer-ceramic coating that’s usually applied to firearms, often in camouflage or flat earthen colours, it’s a neat process that’s very heat and distortion resistant and should ensure a mirror-like finish for years, the engine was blasted and polished the cylinder was bored out to 59mm and new Wiseco pistons installed, compression was taken up to 10:1 and displacement is now 553cc’s, like an original cafe racer this one is considerably lighter than stock, Kyril’s target weight was 350 pounds (158kg) and with the anti-gravity battery, aluminium parts and tricky things like the adjustable foot peg positioner he nearly managed to hit that with the bike weighing in at 357lbs, ‘I think I could have hit 350,’ he explains, ‘but I had to replace the front single disc with a twin disc setup that was irresistible’, and that is what I think about this motorbike, irresistible.