A quick stroke of the drafting pencil. That's all it took. Some poor, overworked Japanese designer probably thought he'd had a pretty good day at work. And he had - but for that one fateful decision. It was, after all, the 80s. Plastic was all the rage. Could one little modification to the bottom edge of a gas tank really mean all that much? The answer, with 30 years hindsight, is a resounding ‘yes’. That design feature and it's total inability to exist independently from that ugly plastic sidecover has caused so much grief for modern builders that the guy is probably living in hiding. But we forgive you, designer-san. We forgive you because of builders like Alec and the team at Old Empire Motorcycles. Their deft hands have taken your tank and done this with it. Come back. All is forgiven.
“The Honda Superdream has been on our list for a long while,” say Alec Sharp - owner of Old Empire Motorcycles. “Then a good friend brough one in and before he could leave we had managed to strip the bike down, a state in which it stayed for quite a while.”
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