Jean-Michel Atlan’s street tracker, reimagined 40 years later… In 1877, Japanese entrepreneur Torakusu Yamaha, the third son of a samurai of the Kishu-Tokugawa family, founded Nippon Gakki Company in order to manufacturer reed organs. Torakusu’s […]
Tag: Yamaha XT
B-Road Baddie: Yamaha XT600 Street Tracker
Hoxton Moto’s 1992 Yamaha XT600 Street Tracker… Introduced back in 1983, the Yamaha XT600 would remain in production until the early 2000s, earning a reputation as a worthy, rock-solid successor to the original twin-shock XT500 […]
A Bicycle Fleshed with Power: 300cc “Dream Build”
Berg & Co’s fixed-gear-inspired 300cc custom… For many of us, the love of motorcycles started with bicycles, and this was certainly the case for our friend Kevin Bergeron of Berg & Co — a firefighter, […]
Lord Drake Kustoms: Yamaha XT600 Scrambler
Introduced in 1984, the Yamaha XT600 would become one of the most venerated big-bore “trailies” of all time — a rugged, no-nonsense dual-purpose machine that performed equally well on grocery runs and trans-African expeditions. “The […]
Junkyard XT: Yamaha XT500 Scrambler
Junk to Jewel: Resto-modded XT500 from Workshop43… The Yamaha XT500 remains one of our favorite single-cylinder motorcycles of all time. The big air-cooled enduro won the inaugural Paris-Dakar Rally, swept the podium in the second […]
Streamlined XT: 1980 Yamaha XT500
Black Cycles Australia builds a streamlined XT for Retromotive… If you’ve been following BikeBound for any length of time, you know we’re big fans of the Yamaha XT500. Not only did the 500cc single win […]
70s-Style Yamaha XT600 “Arbiana” Scrambler
Rivertown Custom Cycles salvages a botched XT… Back in 2019, we featured a Buell XB12-powered Sportster drag bike from the likes of Mirko and Nena Nicic, the husband/wife duo behind Croatia’s Rivertown Custom Cycles. They […]
Scrambler Road Cross: Yamaha “SRC600”
A Dutch motocross racer builds himself a dual-terrain ripper… In 1983, Kawasaki and Yamaha decided to challenge Honda’s domination of the big-bore dual-sport class. Kawasaki introduced their KLR600 and Yamaha their XT600 — a bike […]
#AG02: Yamaha XT600 Scrambler by Asphalt & Gravel
An Italian moto photographer gets to shoot a special of his own… In the motorcycle world, there are a handful of photographers who stand apart from the rest, never failing to capture the full power, […]
Queen of Dakar: ZZ Moto’s 1981 Yamaha XT500 Resto
The Yamaha XT500 is one of our favorite bikes of all time. The twin-shock, four-stroke single-cylinder enduro came out in 1976, a street-legal version of the TT500 introduced a year earlier. Yamaha USA had realized […]
