This is a project that Thrive took on for a friend called Anka who happens to be a huge Honda enthusiast but his collection of Honda’s have all been restored to original condition and had never customized one. He had just bought a 1980 Honda CB650-FOUR and the bike was in good condition but was already in a state that was not fully original so he decided it was a good donor to turn into his first custom. He also wanted this bike to be his daily rider and given the bad condition of a lot of the roads in Jakarta, they decided a scrambler style bike would tick all the boxes.

Thrive being big fans of Honda’s heritage looked back at their past scramblers, in particular the eye pleasing CL series. It made them wonder why the CL-Series stopped at the Honda CL450 – and why there are no scrambler series for the Honda CB-FOUR. Maybe it’s not going to be a real scrambler that you can use in the off-road track with a variety of obstacles but it might seem quite perfect to be an Urban Scrambler that can go hustling in the city.

"This Honda CB650 has truly been transformed by Thrive into a motorcycle that looks like it could have rolled out of the Honda factory as a CL650. And with all the factory scramblers being released these days, it wouldn’t be such a bad idea for Honda to actually manufacture a modern take on their classic CL scramblers" -Pipeburn