Little Horse Cycles 1972 CB500 Cafe Racer

Andrew Cornelissen is a motorcyclist and fabricator in Portland, Oregon. His Honda CB500 custom always cruised smoothly into events looking debonaire and classy. I had to get some photos to share. That turned into me asking him all the work he’d done and well, it’s quite the list. Andrew is the founder and owner of Little Horse Cycles, does fantastic fabrication, welding, and top notch motorcycle build projects.

The bike is rather ingenious in design in many ways, when you look below at the mod list you’ll see what I mean. It’s impressively light with a dry weight of 365 lbs/165.5 kg and the entire build cost $1600 including title, all parts, and the original purchase. If you went to the 2012 One Motorcycle Show, you may have spotted it on display.

Clip ons – I built custom and used the original bars for the ends
Headlight – original cut down to lower the light
Fork brace – Hand built and back yard machined
Stainless brake lines
Pods
Braced Swing arm for rigidity and to hold the tire hugger
Hand made carbon fiber exhaust cannister recycled and shrunk down from a wrecked Supra exhaust