Honda arrives in style at Wheels and Waves 2024 - and at hondacustoms.com - with 16 customized CLs

2024 marks five years of www.hondacustoms.com, with a record-breaking field of sixteen bikes from nine different European countries battling it out for the top prize.

In 2020, the ‘Africa Four CRF1000R’ version of the CB1000R from Swiss Honda dealer Brivemo Motos was crowned the inaugural www.hondacustoms.com victor. In 2021 Mototrafa’s CB650R Fenix won for Portugal. In 2022 it was custom CMX500 Rebels, with Maanboard from Sardinia-based customisers Motocicli Audaci taking the honours. For 2023 minibikes took centre stage and the winner, the post-apocalyptic Dax Furisoa

The customisation contest has become an annual event – working in reality and online – that’s growing in popularity as imaginations run riot.

2024 looks to build on the success and this time it’s the turn of the CL500, a bike loaded with scrambler style and a zesty, A2 compliant twin-cylinder engine. Versatile and huge fun to ride, the CL500 is a great entry point for both motorcycling itself and the world of customisation and all the freedom, self-expression and individuality it allows – for that reason, its guiding design principle is simply ‘Express yourself’.

Here are just a few of the highlights: