Project · from custom to scrambler · no cuts

Glare

Honda VT600 Shadow. A nineties Japanese custom turned into a scrambler: from shadow to pure light.

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Chapter 01 — Far from its origins

A scrambler,
not a bobber

Base: Honda VT600 Shadow
Origin: Nineties custom
Now: Scrambler
Frame: Original · no cuts

What I enjoy most, and what drives me, is the chance to create a custom bike by radically changing the style of the bike itself into something far from its origins.

When I was offered this Honda Shadow, a classic nineties Japanese custom, with the wish to make a sort of scrambler instead of the usual bobber, I knew I was going to have fun.

Chapter 02 — True to the original

No
cuts

I tried to keep the original frame structure, with no cuts.

The wheels and tyres also stay true to the original technical specifications.

From Honda Shadow custom to Glare scrambler

Chapter 03 — The stance

A level
frame

The rear shock was lengthened and the front forks stiffened, so as to make the frame as level as possible.

The tank, modelled in clay and made by hand, gives the bike character with its retro line.

A set of handmade rear-set footpegs. Handmade high 2-1 exhausts and a large headlight complete the line.

Tank

Modelled in clay

Exhausts

High 2-1

Footpegs

Rear-set

Glare in the studio on a dark background, side view

Copper cylinders and handmade high 2-1 exhausts

Front three-quarter view in the studio with the large headlight

Chapter 04 — The colour

Pastel,
copper and leather

For the colour I used a pastel in the classic shades of the forties, set against the modern copper of the cylinders, with a seat in fine tan leather to tie it all together.

Forties pastel Copper Tan leather