I am the original owner of a 1998 CR500R with Honda card #**0103 and will never sell it! I still ride this beast. In 1999 I survived the M.S. Soboba Invitational in one of wettest years I can remember! Its still in its original Bars, plastics, decals, tank, number plates and wheels, seat and cover except for its air filter, sprockets and chain, exhaust and reed cage from FMF added two weeks after bike purchase. The head has never been off nor cases split! Just services and ride. Some day I'll do a ground up...... That CR500AF in this segment is a dream ride that will give me heart palpitations just looking at it!
Super cool to see a CR500 setup this way shows how versatile they are, the polishing on the motor and frame is off the charts look forward to a top speed drag test!
YOU HAVE THE MEANEST BADASS ART EXHIBITION OF BIKES KEN THIS IS DEFINITELY YOUR NUMBER ONE PEACE BY A LONG SHOT IN MY EYES THE ONE AN ONLY THE MYTH THE LEDGEND #CR500AF MASSIVE RESPECT KEN 👍🙏😇
I have raced SUPERMOTO, MOTO, and ROADRACING for many years. Seen a lot of bikes in my 40+years of riding and the attention to detail on that bike is second to none!!!👏🏼👍🏻👍🏻
need to take to all supercross/ motocross races as a selling point...with your rig/and tent ect...t shirts.. build make these for all with $$$$$$ awesome ..
@@spooge33 As fast as they move GasGas dirtbikes out the door selling them, you never know for sure. If they're meeting GasGas expectations of sales, and then some, it may change the way GasGas looks at them, because they're putting endless and consistent money in their pockets, selling alot more GasGas Dirtbikes, then most dealerships could ever sell. If I owned a huge dealership, where every allotment of bikes, was sold and sold quickly, I wouldn't care what they did.....because they would putting big and consistent money in my pockets. As long as it didn't hurt the GasGas Name, Sales, or Reputation, that would be their private person business. Whatever floats their boat. They give the people exactly what they want, and then some, going out of their way, above and beyond to make their customers happy, and coming back..Word of Mouth spreads quickly between. dirtbike riding enthusiasts, and reputation, honesty, and customer service skills are everything. They treat their customers how they would want to be treated, if they were a customer. That goes a longa ways, with potential customers, and current customers.
That would be awesome. More exposure. More customers to be made happy. Customers will always be loyal and keep coming back, just keep them happy, and they play 100% honest and fair with their customers. They did with me, both times around. This channel, is one of the best things that happened to me in years, making quality of life, so much better.
We (service honda/built500) were with the subwaymx/service honda sx and national race tesm.back.in 2004-2005 for several years, we had a CR500AF in the team semi,and displayed in the pits . ;)
Hey mate !! Sooo I'm sitting here contemplating my whole existence now after viewing the thing that may change my whole life and goals 😆 fortunately for my bank account and the vast array of toys I have my beautiful wife reminded me that it's just ok to watch your videos and not get my jocks in a twist 😆🤣🤣 so now I'm thinking that asking for forgiveness after I've built one of these is better than the initial rejection lollll 🤣🤣🤣 you're a bad man but so good for me hahahaha absolutely love all your vids mate ! We play hard over here in Oz too with our Motos , love it ❤️
Very interested in the lighting. Wanting to do an OEM looking setup for my 2004 CR500 aluminum frame conversion. (I've got the ultra rare E-line 180w external stator like the CRE500s had in Australia 🇦🇺) but maybe by now technology has moved past that. I need help sourcing a modern solution to make my 500 street legal.
Mick Doohan (5-time 500cc World Champion) built himself a road-registered CR500 back in the day. I came across it at a bike shop in Brisbane (Queensland, Australia), which was just up the road from his hometown on the Gold Coast.
😍😍😍I would happily blast around the roads on that all day long,but would definitely get the crf graphics off mind.Maybe chrome dip a set of plastics with black graphics or black plastics with chrome graphics I bet that would look awesome.The down side to owning that bike would be I would look stupid wearing a bib because I would be drooling all the time🤤
My dream is just to find a 500 engine so I can slowly make it my own personal baby. It’s literally next to impossible to find anything here where I am in Ontario. Just taking a trip to the museum to see all the bikes would be a trip of a lifetime. But, that requires Ontario to pay our workers fairly too have the money to do so… let’s see how the year ends up and maybe next year I’ll get the pleasure of seeing where all the magic happens at Kaplan Cycles and the motorcycle museum 🙏
give me a name and there gone🤣🤣🤣🤣 man what id do for tht bike!!! so beautiful id literally set up an air mattress for my olady on the floor wile i cuddle the bike on the bed. lmfaooo u guys killed it then to give it super moto kit so it stays clean “HOPEFULLY”… lol mistake including the mx set up but hey if it was mine it would spend time on road, sm23, mx23, southwick, 508int, crow hill, pitcherville sand pits in hubbardston, and good old barre massachusetts were i ran from cops 100s of times on bikes but got so many bikes in and out they never know who it is but with a plate i can legally ride to all my spots!!!! the cr500af sm/sx is the ultimate dream man i think id rather that bike than a house at this point!!!!! NAILED IT!!!!!!!!
Anyone know if the CR600 with counterbalancing, exhaust valves, electric start from Panther motorsports is any good? Would make for an awesone supermotard setup if it runs good.
Honda supported us a bit thru the last 25 years of making 500AFs with Service honda and Built500. They have even purchased about 10 bikes from.me over the years. They absolutely know we made over 6000 AF bikes,as they sold us the CR and CRFs that got turned into them :)
I am the original owner of a 1998 CR500R with Honda card #**0103 and will never sell it! I still ride this beast. In 1999 I survived the M.S. Soboba Invitational in one of wettest years I can remember! Its still in its original Bars, plastics, decals, tank, number plates and wheels, seat and cover except for its air filter, sprockets and chain, exhaust and reed cage from FMF added two weeks after bike purchase. The head has never been off nor cases split! Just services and ride. Some day I'll do a ground up...... That CR500AF in this segment is a dream ride that will give me heart palpitations just looking at it!
Super cool to see a CR500 setup this way shows how versatile they are, the polishing on the motor and frame is off the charts look forward to a top speed drag test!
What's your guess on top speed?
@@angrytater2456 170kmh
Wwwaaaaantt 1!!! Radd
I don't think I've ever heard the term "bristling with trickery" quite so many times in a 5 minute period...impressive!! :)
This is quite possibly the sickest bike I've ever seen.. definitely a dream
YOU HAVE THE MEANEST BADASS ART EXHIBITION OF BIKES KEN THIS IS DEFINITELY YOUR NUMBER ONE PEACE BY A LONG SHOT IN MY EYES THE ONE AN ONLY THE MYTH THE LEDGEND #CR500AF MASSIVE RESPECT KEN 👍🙏😇
This is a bucket list bike for me. Would be sick to daily this in the summer
I have raced SUPERMOTO, MOTO, and ROADRACING for many years.
Seen a lot of bikes in my 40+years of riding and the attention to detail on that bike is second to none!!!👏🏼👍🏻👍🏻
Awesome! What a smokin' bike to ride on the streets!!! I wanted to put one of those motors in my RZ frame when I blew a piston!
Dang! That bike is a work of ART!🔥🔥🔥 So tricked out, well done!
Started with the bike I now want more than anything the supermoto CR500. Then just dropped a couple bloody gorgeous motorcrossers. Very nice.
Same I want this bike more than any other bike rn it’s amazing
Ken you did it again,10 out er 10.Dream bike,love it,
Oh man that is so badass! 500 two stroke super moto in a modern frame 💪
need to take to all supercross/ motocross races as a selling point...with your rig/and tent ect...t shirts.. build make these for all with $$$$$$ awesome ..
Not sure GasGas would like that idea.
@@spooge33 As fast as they move GasGas dirtbikes out the door selling them, you never know for sure. If they're meeting GasGas expectations of sales, and then some, it may change the way GasGas looks at them, because they're putting endless and consistent money in their pockets, selling alot more GasGas Dirtbikes, then most dealerships could ever sell. If I owned a huge dealership, where every allotment of bikes, was sold and sold quickly, I wouldn't care what they did.....because they would putting big and consistent money in my pockets. As long as it didn't hurt the GasGas Name, Sales, or Reputation, that would be their private person business. Whatever floats their boat. They give the people exactly what they want, and then some, going out of their way, above and beyond to make their customers happy, and coming back..Word of Mouth spreads quickly between. dirtbike riding enthusiasts, and reputation, honesty, and customer service skills are everything. They treat their customers how they would want to be treated, if they were a customer. That goes a longa ways, with potential customers, and current customers.
That would be awesome. More exposure. More customers to be made happy. Customers will always be loyal and keep coming back, just keep them happy, and they play 100% honest and fair with their customers. They did with me, both times around. This channel, is one of the best things that happened to me in years, making quality of life, so much better.
We (service honda/built500) were with the subwaymx/service honda sx and national race tesm.back.in 2004-2005 for several years, we had a CR500AF in the team semi,and displayed in the pits .
;)
@@sonnyseabury4051 The hauler is lettered with GasGas, the team is riding GasGas. Go to the races and display Honda? Ok.
Beautiful machine you guy did an amazing job 🤘
Stunning piece of art absolutely beautiful great job Kaplan team go aj and the wizard 🧙🏾♂️
"It is bristling with trickery from one end to the other", Kaplan America.
Straight fire I love that style
One of My goals in life is to buy a bike off you kap
God bless America 🇺🇸
Mate yep it's becoming a bucket list thing to do in my life ,is get a bike from the cap himself and bring it back to Australia 🦘
Even just a visit to the HQ if I can't buy a bike...
Absolutely Stunning! Nice work!
Dollar for dollar with the street tires, I would purchase a Yamaha MT-09 because I've been seriously looking.👈 Extremely cool build Ken.. 👍
Fz/my/xsr is a nice bike but you could have way more fun on something like this
Sick bike ! Looks really smart with the moto wheels on it.. this thing would be fun on the roads.. top build as always 👌
Holy smokes is that one stunning machine 😍
That is truly the finest example that I’ve ever seen, pure perfection 👌🏻
Thank you :)
👍
Commendable, Ken. You ALWAYS have the best of the best!
That's my dream theirs nothing more in life I would live then that bike
Wow!! those rims have totally set it off, looks mean Ken 🤘
Hey mate !! Sooo I'm sitting here contemplating my whole existence now after viewing the thing that may change my whole life and goals 😆 fortunately for my bank account and the vast array of toys I have my beautiful wife reminded me that it's just ok to watch your videos and not get my jocks in a twist 😆🤣🤣 so now I'm thinking that asking for forgiveness after I've built one of these is better than the initial rejection lollll 🤣🤣🤣 you're a bad man but so good for me hahahaha absolutely love all your vids mate ! We play hard over here in Oz too with our Motos , love it ❤️
Simply stunning as can be. Only the best indeed
Kenny Kaplan is single handedly keeping cr500’s alive and well
That Built Cr500 is beautiful those super moto tires look amazing on it, I wouldn't want that bike touching grass/mudd either, God Bless Everyone..
Thank you!
Insanely sweet supermoto!!
Could only imagine the trouble I can get myself into on one of those 😆
My My, that is one sweet ride, and the jacket is absolute EVIL!
Holy shit I want that bike. I would love to ride that on the road everyday. Absolutely amazing!!!!
Thats my dream bike right there👌😮💨
You’re killing me. These are gorgeous. Wow. ❤
Hell yeah brother just a rippin and a tearin on that big bore Devil
2 words. Absolutely amazing.
those CRF graphics on that piece of perfection make me wanna gouge me poor eyes out.
Somewhere in a moto mag from the eighties, said that Jeff wards 500 was pushing close to 60 HP. Motocross Action, I think it was
Phenomenal machine and in SM trim… 🤩
Very interested in the lighting. Wanting to do an OEM looking setup for my 2004 CR500 aluminum frame conversion. (I've got the ultra rare E-line 180w external stator like the CRE500s had in Australia 🇦🇺) but maybe by now technology has moved past that. I need help sourcing a modern solution to make my 500 street legal.
increible gladiador te mereces el cielo. Gracias por estos increibles videos.
Absolutely beautiful the best Honda CR500af I’ve ever seen Omg 👍🏻 😍😍😍 a for ever bike 💯 %
Would love too but Telegram banned me from post or communicate with other channels I’ve been speaking about my past experiences..
Beautiful 😍
HONDA HEAVEN !!! AND THE E.K.JACKET IS SWEET !!!
Mick Doohan (5-time 500cc World Champion) built himself a road-registered CR500 back in the day. I came across it at a bike shop in Brisbane (Queensland, Australia), which was just up the road from his hometown on the Gold Coast.
I was born in 89. Always wanted a dirt bike or Harley. That was built in 89… hopefully one day. You should do a video of your FXRs.
Badass👍《☆》I can smell the 2smoke🔥from my Quarterback chair🖖😎🏈
The plastics, the mags,the tank ,the lights 👀,the business ❗
Lovely looking bike sounds great
Very nice looking bike
Absolutely SICK!!!!
😍😍😍I would happily blast around the roads on that all day long,but would definitely get the crf graphics off mind.Maybe chrome dip a set of plastics with black graphics or black plastics with chrome graphics I bet that would look awesome.The down side to owning that bike would be I would look stupid wearing a bib because I would be drooling all the time🤤
Omg Very Beautiful bike brilliant many carat 😎✨😍💐💪🇺🇲💐 thank you
What a BEAUTY !!! 👍
Класс!! Очень круто!!
My dream is just to find a 500 engine so I can slowly make it my own personal baby. It’s literally next to impossible to find anything here where I am in Ontario. Just taking a trip to the museum to see all the bikes would be a trip of a lifetime. But, that requires Ontario to pay our workers fairly too have the money to do so… let’s see how the year ends up and maybe next year I’ll get the pleasure of seeing where all the magic happens at Kaplan Cycles and the motorcycle museum 🙏
Please you make more wizard tuned tshirt cuz they whisked n I love the bloke expert tunner n mechanic
This is cr 500 heaven. Worlds best bikes right here. One day i shall have one myself. Beautiful bikes
Samurai sword for the streets, what a weapon...
Holy shit that thing is off the hook man...daaaam...
That's just a dream like no other
The 89 is just insane 😮
Drooling over this bike 🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤
You could rule the tail of the dragon w/ this machine.
Two words
Beautiful 💜
🤣LETS GO BRANDON
Que joya 💍 🤤🤤🤤🤤👌
One lucky 🍀 owner of this beats.
One day I'm getting
BEAUTIFUL MOTO
Love those tire's too
Nice!
Wow very sick
Holy Shnikeez! That’s sick
Outstanding
That's my dream bike a 2 stroke street legal supermoto!!! I have a 4 stroke super moto but want a 2 also!!!
Gorgeous Bike!!
Now that's how I would want my bike to look just for me I'd want white rim's on it now that'd would look badass white rim's
Un mostro 😁🤑🤗
Absolutely bad ass trick machines ! I'd give my brother's left baby maker for either one . PK
that's awesome 👌
Only thing that needs to be changed on that bike is the silencer switched to a shorty cuz it'll look and sound better but damn sexy ass bike
I need to start a chrome polishing business lol. Three grand!!!!! wow!!!
Love it!
Damn that thing is sweet!💯✌️
give me a name and there gone🤣🤣🤣🤣 man what id do for tht bike!!! so beautiful id literally set up an air mattress for my olady on the floor wile i cuddle the bike on the bed. lmfaooo u guys killed it then to give it super moto kit so it stays clean “HOPEFULLY”… lol mistake including the mx set up but hey if it was mine it would spend time on road, sm23, mx23, southwick, 508int, crow hill, pitcherville sand pits in hubbardston, and good old barre massachusetts were i ran from cops 100s of times on bikes but got so many bikes in and out they never know who it is but with a plate i can legally ride to all my spots!!!! the cr500af sm/sx is the ultimate dream man i think id rather that bike than a house at this point!!!!! NAILED IT!!!!!!!!
From the days when "if you can't start it, you have no business riding it."
One gorgeous bike, that would be fun as hell, to legally be able to ride in the street.
That 91 is just beautiful. It’s a dream of mine to buy a early-mid 90s 500 off Kaplan, they just don’t get any better anywhere.
What a bike!
Wow, what a beauty!! I'd take a spin on it but. $25 large?
that s*** badass
Looks like jewelery, thought it was a gas gas bike till I rubbed my eyes. 70 hp, are you kidding me..
Headlight is LIT 🔥
thats what im talking about. epic
nice
I love this guy! Long live the Dinosaurs!
wow that thing is insane thx Big Ken
Wheely machine!
Anyone know if the CR600 with counterbalancing, exhaust valves, electric start from Panther motorsports is any good? Would make for an awesone supermotard setup if it runs good.
Mr Honda please take note, this CR500R is what every mad lad desires.
also ...... 4 strokes suck!
Honda supported us a bit thru the last 25 years of making 500AFs with Service honda and Built500.
They have even purchased about 10 bikes from.me over the years.
They absolutely know we made over 6000 AF bikes,as they sold us the CR and CRFs that got turned into them :)
🆒💯🏁😳 awesome 😎✅