‘78 Honda CX500 - BBCR Engineering. Somewhere in Kobe, Japan, a man named Shoichiro Irimajiri is sitting quietly with a satisfied smile on his face and the sort of grin that says “I told you so”! Not only is he the man behind the legendary Honda CBX Six Cylinder that now commands premium prices by collectors he's also responsible for the CX500, once derided as the “Plastic... backyardrider.com