A two-up tracker for a Texas young gun and his lady… Colt Wrangler has quite possibly the best name of any custom builder in the world — and the skills, style, and heart to back […]
Tag: Yamaha XS
Yamaha XS400 Brat Tracker by Forge Cycleworks
Garage-built, “Baby Blue” brat tracker from the Sunshine State… Andy Jansky may work as a realtor in his professional life, but he’s also the founder of Forge Cycleworks in Vero Beach, Florida. He found this […]
Yamaha XS650 Street Tracker by Joe Wagner
Simply the best Yamaha XS650 Street Tracker we have ever seen… Joe Wagner is a fabricator and painter who has a background in aviation fabrication, car restoration, and race car building. Lucky for us, he’s […]
Yamaha XS1100 Cafe Racer
“The XS is a Rolls Royce with a blown Chrysler Hemi motor…” So said Cycle Magazine of the Yamaha XS1100, aka the XS Eleven or XS11. When it was introduced in 1978, the XS1100 was […]
Yamaha XS650 Scrambler by Therapy Garage
The Yamaha XS650 is one of our favorite platforms for custom builds. That parallel twin is a beauty, reminiscent of the British twins of yore, and the bike makes a killer tracker or scrambler. So […]
Yamaha XS750 Cafe Racer
Here at BikeBound, we’re suckers for triples. There’s something about the harmonics of three cylinders that rev the blood. Unfortunately, the Yamaha XS750 (and later XS850) never seem to get the same love as the […]
Garage-Built XS650 Brat Tracker: “TruNorth”
It’s hard to beat the Yamaha XS650 for character, durability, and ease of customization. The lines lend themselves readily to all kinds of builds, from choppers to trackers, and what the parallel twin lacks in […]
Yamaha XS750 Cafe Racer by Backdoor
The Yamaha XS750 and XS850–both triples–don’t receive nearly as much attention from custom builders as the wildly popular XS650 parallel twins of the same era. However, the three-cylinder XS750 was lauded as a “Bargain […]
Faves: 1977 Yamaha XS400 Tracker
Here we have the personal bike of Ginger McCabe, who is THE lady to talk to if you need a custom seat for your build. She’s the owner of New Church Moto in Portland, and […]
