After falling in love with a 1938’s Zundapp DB200, Spaniard Juan Ramón Ortega decided he wanted to create an original special bike combining it with a Yamaha 250 which already belonged to him.
In order to achieve that goal, the good Señor Ortega teamed up with a trusted mechanic, but the final outcome of that unusual ‘crossover’ was anything but decent, so much so that the idea was abandoned.
The main problem was to find the right bike that effectively that peculiar Zundapp fork, the one bit of the DB200 that Mr.
Ortega found particlarly interesting.
At the end of the day, he decided to ask for professional help, and that’s when Pedro García and Efraon Triana from renowned Spanish workshop Café Racer Dreams came into the picture.
Eventually, the right answer eventually took the form of a 2005 Honda CG125: definitely not a fancy bike, but the right one for the job that the CRD guys had in mind.
The Honda chassis got cut and modified to accommodate fork and engine of the Zundapp, but they also provided it with a 40s kind of vibe that makes it seriously captivating.
At the front we find a modern disc brake, while the frankly horrible tank CG125 was replaced with a much more appealing one lifted from a Derbi FDX 50 cc.
To finish it off, CRD gave the bike a cool black paintjob with gold inserts – which contributes to emphasizes that ‘pre-war’ feeling – and honed other small details.
Last but not least, they gave it a name: “Sierra Bonita.
” For what we can appreciate from these image, it certainly is a pretty awesome job.
