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    The FLYING Dutchman

    Jul 04, 2018 5 minutes
    WORDS ALAN CATHCART

    HOLLAND’S Nico Bakker is the couturier of chassis builders, the welding wizard who’s the man to consult when you want a high-class piece of hardware to wrap around a motor to create a unique bike that handles well and looks the business. So when one of his countrymen who prefers to remain nameless — we’ll call him Dutchy — decided he wanted to combine his passion for Honda CBXs and modern-day streetfighters, there was only one man to turn to.

    “My love affair for the six-cylinder Honda started when I was 10 years old,” says Dutchy, now in his early 40s. “I was walking with my mum in town and I saw a CBX at a traffi c light with the engine burbling away on idle. It had a six-into-one exhaust and I couldn’t wait to hear it accelerate off, but my mother wanted to leave and

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