WIN THIS CUSTOM HONDA CB1100!

Raffle tickets are now available for this custom Ride For Kids Cycle World Honda CB1100FS, which benefits the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation.

Last week, we included this bike, the custom Ride For Kids/Cycle World Honda CB1100, in our list of our five favorite motorcycles from AIMExpo 2014. But we feel that this lusciously cool machine—which looks just like one of Freddie Spencer's race bikes from the early 1980s and is being raffled off to benefit the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation—deserves a closer look.

This bike started life as a brand-new 2014 CB1100, donated by Honda. Then, the talented folks at AIP Speed of Santa Clarita, California, went to work building the machine, which has a totally nostalgic look but promises all the dependability and reliability of a modern, fuel-injected motorcycle. Support, as always, comes from many generous companies in the motorsport industry:

  • BrakeTech's CBR600RR brakes have been customized to fit the CB1100

  • BST provides the lightweight and strong carbon-fiber wheels

  • A Dynojet Power Commander V fuel-injection module and a quickshifter provide more aggressive fueling and faster gear changes

  • Spiegler Performance Parts supplies the handlebar, which has a proper superbike bend

  • Decals come from ProLine Wraps

  • The multi-adjustable shocks, with piggyback reservoirs, are from Öhlins

  • Gered Poepke at Valley Kustoms handled the beautiful metal-flake paint job

  • The exhaust, built by Yoshimura R&D, has 1980s' superbike styling

  • And lastly, Arai Helmets has donated a Corsair V helmet, with a graphic similar to the one that Spencer wore

Best of all, let's not forget that this Honda, with its braced swingarm, custom velocity stacks, and unique bodywork, can be yours. Raffle tickets, which cost $5 each (or $20 for five), are available here. And if you want to see this beautiful bike in person, it will be at the San Mateo Progressive International Motorcycle Show this weekend, plus all the other IMS shows through Chicago on February 13.

In basketball, they say you miss every shot you don't take. But with this Ride For Kids/Cycle World Honda CB1100FS, there are no misses. Even if your number isn't chosen, you are doing your part to help the fight against pediatric brain tumors. For the record, 13 kids are diagnosed with brain tumors each day, and we motorcyclists, through the Ride For Kids charity, have helped make the PBTF the largest non-governmental funder of pediatric brain tumor research. And for that, we salute you.

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