Regulars Rides: Luke's Honda XR600 Thumper
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ก.ค. 2024
- After riding a lot of off-road in Morocco, Luke decided he needed something for the streets of London that he could still ride off-road at events like Bike Shed's Sunday Scramble. The result is his Honda XR600 Thumper scrambler built by Muff Customs.
Sunday Scramble: thebikeshed.cc/sunday-scrambl... - ยานยนต์และพาหนะ
Absolute beauty, well done! It sounds amazing too
Man, I DO love the sound of an old thumper, especially a large capacity one like this.
Sounds good, looks stupid. 😂
Kickstart only was the greatest theft deterrent on my 650 Husaberg. Best of luck to anyone brave enough!
In a drunken stupor my friend tried to kickstart my xl600r and proceeded to break his ankle. Holding the throttle wide open on a thumper when kicking is not a very bright idea as it seems.
Ha, always said my VOR had a built in, foot operated, sobriety tester. Get it wrong and you either sobered up getting the exercise for the next 30 minutes or ended up thrown in the ditch 30 ft away......
Looks good and its a project that was built to be used. Its definitely a keeper! Nicely done...thx for sharing
really cool simple build absolutely love it
Such a beautiful bulid! Fun, beautiful and with those suttle details🙌🏻
Yep! 👍 I’ll never get tired of that sound.
This is amazing...I’m so jealous!
I’m just building a dual Sport Xr600r but I love the blow by chain lube idea and using it on my bike thank showing those details.. awesome bike there’s great craftsmanship there
Man that’s nice, had an xr400 for about 4 years and still one of my favourite bikes.
I love the black ones, were they factory or did people buy the black plastics and change them over
Lovely job. Congratulations! Bears a passing resemblance to my Desert Sled.
Beautiful, absolutely beautiful.
damn man, this is sweet. turn lights are something i have never seen before, interesting implementation.
imagine drinking your tea or eating breakfast peacefully and suddently someone passes by with an 80's bike and fills up your lungs with smoke lmaoo
he doesnt want to say he got the levers off of ebay. lol
Is there another place to buy motorcycles parts? Lol. If you're a mechanic, you basically live on eBay I think.
Yes Avs copies lol, I've bought them as well.
Hahahaha
Just after he says, fender and speedo are from Ebay... 😵
@@Ritalie I’m pretty sure there literally isn’t anywhere else to buy parts 🤣
Love the Bike & love the way you have built it Brother 😊, this is the kind of bike am looking for which is nimble agile & fun to ride Bike , Ride Safe Buddy 😊
They could do a whole series with your bikes alone Luke.
Very very cool. The oil breather doubling as a chain oiler was smart as.
Keeps the dust down on the cobbles too apparently
Awesome bike, thanks for sharing.
Great bike nice to see another tall bike with monster folks 🖖
Very nice ,,like everything about this bike the way you have done it cheersbshane UK
Great bike....looks and sounds great! Steve
the whole bike is awesome , love the key idea
Great to see. Inspiration. I have an old 83 XR500 that has been sitting around for years and have been debating what to do with it.
Happy we can help Inspire!
Work of art!!!
Bevel out a groove in the ignition key and glue in a magnet so hopefully you won't lose it.
Very cool twist on a classic beast man I just posted 4 vids of my 91 bigbore XR600 thrashing with some mates years ago luv the big pigs keep em coming cheers
Definitely one of the coolest bikes featured here
I do love a civilized Enduro bike. Makes me want to run over stuff and hit gravel roads. Beautiful bike! Love the lights, license plate holder, and key.
I had a fully built Xr600 that I was tempted to do a similar build on. It was a handful on the tight single tracks, but on the pavement it still left a bit to be desired. Wheelies were fun around town, but after 40mph it was still a dog compared to more street oriented bikes, and the vibes on the freeway were crazy. Plus, that thing was an absolute bear to kick over; I shredded a good pair of shoes starting it up. At 200lbs I could stand on the kick lever at tdc, and the compression would hold me up.
Got to love a big Honda single 👍🏼
This is my all time favorite.
Guys I just found ur channel after watching videos about the v7 moto Guzzi because I think about buying one. I came across Alex's one and definitely fell in love with it. But then I started looking at ur other videos and now I'm lost... I want a LOT of them^^ Anyways I'm enjoying ur channel right now :D
Awesome build! :)
That is absolutely stunning :(
Awesome! Love the thumper.
Sweet looking ride that,Luke.Just right for urban/off road lunacy 👍👍
These XR600 builds are starting to sway me, was never really interested but there are some cracking looking builds of late
"Builds"
well done mate. love it
stunning bike
looks great fun nice job
Never thought of using the breather as chain lube! Adding this to my mod list >:)
British bikes of the 1960's came from the factory with that chain oiler.
My xl600lmh has this, the pipe is part of the passenger footpeg braket.
Proper wheelie machine…. Love it.👍
Easily one of the coolest thumpers I've ever seen! Cheers from Louisiana P[>
Looks great mate.
Beautiful!
Thats a proper looking motorcycle i luv it!
I would buy that, looks great.
Wow awesome bike!!!
My heart ❤️ that is so beautiful.
Great bike! If you do it right, kick back should never be an issue. Cycle through the kick slowly, once you reach the hard spot, you should be at top of compression stroke, release. Give firm strong kick. Should fire right up.
Really nice 👏
Love that oil breather pipe
That's a beauty !!!!!!
This bike look so nice
I like ur style man! 👍🏼
If you think she’s a man you need to get out more.
Honda CG125 tanks must be going up in value nowadays. Every second hipster sled I see has one. (small tank makes engine look bigger)
I love it! I would like to have a bike set up like that
That oil breather/chain luber is so smart!
Quite a common thing on old thumpers
awesome bike!
This is awesome
This bike is now all I want.
Muito linda aqui no Brasil e difícil ver criações assim parabéns
I have a 1988 xr600r and it's still all a dirt bike and I won't change it at all, I'm not a purist but I want to be able to blast done dirt trails as well as riding on the road. Nice job on this bike though.😊❤
Grrr big singles stir the blood! Good stuff!
It’s a twin.
Nice bike, I really like it
Love it!!
Looks great
Cool! Neat job!!!
Beautifuuuul!!!! 🤙👏👏👏👏
nice and simple.
Looks like fun.
That's a damn cool bike :)
Never thought I would see a version of my old farm bike all dolled up in London.
Well, It's cheap
Ive got a 2008 XR650. I might do this also. Very good looking bike. Id love to get my hands on a late model Guzzi V7 90deg twin motor and trans and make it work in an XR chassis.
I had a 1981 XL 500 Honda. Now that kicked back. Plus if I tried to use the de-compression lever it wouldn’t start.
The times I’ve spent sweating and cursing or rubbing my shin i lost track of. It did a proper job of laming me for months when it kicked back and bent my whole foot upwards as it did so! Trust me it’s not made to bend that way.
It always made me wonder why they made it with such a little part to actually put your foot on, solid metal, cruel and unforgettable x
It sounds very familiar lol. If only it had been more civilised on the start up I may still have it. I loved the ease of pulling away at the traffic lights and it’s tone and looks. Nothing like the Old thumpers. I’m 60 now, back then I was in my 20s
Very cool!
So so cool
Cool bike 🏍
Kinda unrelated to the video, but what is the intro song :0
Im curious on how that cg125 fits the xr600 frame. New brackets to mount it?
Love it.
This isn't a comment telling you what you should or shouldn't do to your bike....its 'your' bike and you have it however you like mate. XR600s are the bomb whatever the style. I do have a hot tip for the Honda XR/NX though......you can(if you want to) get rid of the fuckin' 'horrible standard decompression lever by fitting a Honda CRF450 lever and perch. The type with the hot start lever built into the perch. You can connect the decompressor cable to the hot start lever and have a nice neat setup that makes for a cleaner look on the bars and gets rid of that ugly standard Honda lever that always looks ready to stab you if you have a spill!!
It's usually a straight swap over from the standard clutch/decomp levers with just cable adjustments needed. All sorts of CRF450/WR450 levers on Ebay, from £20 pattern ones to much tricker stuff. Works well and looks much better on my XR600.
OMG I LOVE IT
Great tires choise,most bike like this often used tractor's tires.
I loooove XR 600 !!!!❤️ i Drive although a ´89 in red ....
I Drive a 87er 👍👌
-98 here, with 80s plastics :)
amazing what you made from the xr
As a kid we’d buy whatever we could get and strip/saw/ chop it so we could thrash it around an improvised track on our local fields. Most of them eventually resembled this bike but in the 1960’s cost was circa £5 . I guess I’m missing the point here
Nice down to earth video Luke ! I had a stock yamaha SRX600 single. Does that count as a thumper ? It was a little bit meek power wise and the design worked in parts and not in other parts but I liked it a lot and it drew a fait bit of attention.
Dope bike
very nice
OK. I need to have this.
It definitely grows on a person
Luv my 85 xl600, wish I still had my 81 xl500 a beast of a wheelie machine with a 23 inch front wheel. Like a woman they only hurt you once kicking them over then you learn fast and find the sweet spot.
If your going to have indicators let others see them on the road but great build mate
anyone know where i could get a tail light like that? would love one for my CB project, really like the rear hoop on it and want to leave it as unadulterated as possible
I'm keen to find that aswell
I love it:-) your bike ! right now I'm kind of customizing my 2009 Honda CRF 230 m with knobby tires huge rear sprocket homemade crash bars also going to come off the crash bars brackets with a rack above the front wheel in front of the headlight for hauling a gun or bow or sleeping bag off grid when I haul something also my big military panniers saddlebags sissy bar to haul gun or or bow Camp gear for Outback camping and Adventure hunting she's slow. With the big sprocket but I'm building it for trail mostly off-road trail riding hunting and adventure exploring wilderness dirt and Trail
Lol I love that so loud Enough so people will know I am coming lol I love 🤣🤣🤣
Nice thunmper!
Headlight - anyone know what it is?