HONDA AFRICA TWIN RD07

RALLY BUILD

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This is about a “transformation ” from a legendary old bike to a new adventure bike!

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01.The Bike

The bike which we received and asked to make it looks like a new rally bike was a

Honda Africa Twin RD07 1993. It was a great bike to work and make a nice rally bike.

The bike we received was a hard used bike almost 30 years old , so we start working on it

on several designs but the final decition was taken from the bike owner . The bike was bought

for a reason , a nice rally projct .

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02.The PROJECT

First thing we had to do was to remove all plastics and headlights including

the rear brake light .

Then we have removed the chain guard,radiator guards and the aluminium frame covers.

New parts designed in order to replace the old parts.

-Radiator protections

-Chain guard

-Frame covers

Once we finished with the design it was the time to place the new goodies on the bike !

*In the main time navigation tower was ready to take place on the bike !

Next big step was to install the navigation tower , it was easy enough as the Africa have a

bracket from factory to hold the headlights and clocks !

Navigation tower is now on the bike so we can start making the new side panels !!

“Navigation tower is the main part which holds the

headlights, speedometer and also have brackets for the

new windshield .”

Side panels ! This maybe sounds easy to do but its a very slim line between the fail and success …

First step was to produce a pair of fiberglass standard side panels , like the OEM .

We made the fiberglass panels and we start drawing new designs .. The original idea

was to keep the air intakes on the side panels ,this was not good at all in real life 🙂 .

We start cutting the standard side panels and with some magics the first prototypes getting a nice shape ! The result was better than the one with the air

intakes on the side panels . The whole bike was looking “aggressive rally” ,new side panels fits like a glove on the bike without any modifications and we are really happy !!