Honda Shadow

So, for those who don't know, Although most of you probably do.

The Honda PC-800 is essentially a Honda Shadow that has been given automotive-style bodywork.

And fully featured out.

I don't know if this is actually true, but it has been said that it's been mentioned that this bike was designed by Honda's automotive side, not their motorcycle side.

yeah.

Not that we're endorsing Star Trek.

So kind of under all the body work, what this essentially is, is a Honda Shadow bumped up to 800 cc's.

With hydraulic valves, which is important for this model because it's kind of a pain to get all the bodywork off.

He's walking past all these motorcycles, all these shiny motorcycles, all this shiny paint, and I'm sitting there going... come on man then pretty soon he's in the service department then he walks outside then he goes like back behind the parking lot behind a dumpster or some shit and he finds this decrepit old motorcycle and i was like oh my god that is exactly the spirit yeah

well and you know every everybody expects me to do a harley right so we did i did a honda shadow and uh you know the the the I don't know if it's cheating, but the reason why I did the Honda Shadow is I was working so much, Ashley decided we needed to spend more time together.

So we decided to do a date night bike.

And that date night bike was a $200 Shadow that I could put in a dumpster if it didn't work out.

And so I've done one of these.

So I realized, okay, I could do this one for the smoke out and fix all the mistakes that I did the first time so that it would be a better bike.

So that one was not quite as extreme of a custom job as this one is, because this one started out as a stock Honda Shadow.

But I'm familiar with some of that stuff and it made that part a little bit easier.

It started from here.

My first serious motorbike was a 600cc Honda Shadow.

Then there was a 750, also a Shadow, the Black Widow.

The special thing about it was that it was very well tuned.

It was practically a mellevase, so it was very well fitted.

It's been in me for a long time.

Even when there was the

751 Shadow, I knew that I had to go on a longer trip, and I always went with my friends, so I never went on a longer trip alone.

the best of your knowledge.

If somebody were to ride a Honda Shadow to a predominantly Harley rally, would they be somewhat looked down on? Yeah,

of course.

Okay.

So, um, anyway, I, you know, I, I went through the process of getting my endorsement, and you know, I, I, I didn't know where motorcycling would take me.

I thought I would get a bike, like a cruiser, like a Honda Shadow.

I really wanted a Honda Shadow.

And, or something.

My dad had a, a Kawasaki 650, um, I forget the model.

Mm-hmm

... or a dual sport.

Um, but, you know, for, for now, like when I started training, I thought, "Well, this Kawasaki's great, but I, you know, I wanna get my Honda Shadow." Um, [laughs] I went and I passed, and the first thing I did was buy a Kawasaki Super Sherpa.