Got Torque? 1.7L V-twin from Francesco Paura… Yamaha’s popular MT series is said to stand for “Master of Torque.” However, one bike in the MT lineage has stood above the rest in that department, the […]
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The Meteor 850: Yamaha TRX850 Café Racer
The “Meteor 850” by Etto Motorcycles… “A Ducati with Japanese reliability.” That was the idea behind the Yamaha TRX850, introduced in 1996 to rival the Ducati 900SS, as well as Japanese V-twins like the Honda […]
Race Bike, for the Street: Yamaha RD350 Café Racer
“A vintage race bike without fairings…but for the street.” This was the vision Jesse Crane (@crane_moto) had for the 1975 Yamaha RD350 café racer you see here. You might remember Jesse from his ’71 Yamaha […]
For You, Old Fox: Yamaha RD350 Custom
Cus’Tom Motorcycles rebuilds his father’s RD… The Yamaha RD350 was one of the great giant-killers of the two-wheeled world, a two-stroke street machine with a race-bred bloodline. In AMA Class C racing, the RD racers […]
Torakusu XT: Yamaha XT500 Street Tracker
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 […]
Power Cruiser: Yamaha V-Max “Musashi”
Samurai-inspired V-Max from Shoogly Shed x 78 Outlaw… When Yamaha unleashed the mighty V-Max in 1985, a legend was born. The 145-hp V4 was a fire-breather of the first order, a Mad Max muscle bike […]
Smoke Show: Yamaha DT400 Scrambler
A Two-Stroke Ripper from Hex Moto… The Yamaha DT400 is one of our favorite two-stroke enduros of the 1970s. It arose from the original DT-1 250 of 1969, which revolutionized the market as a […]
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 […]
Smoky Runner: Yamaha DT125R Restomod
BCKustoms returns to his two-stroke roots… The original Yamaha DT-1 250 Enduro and the long line of successors it spawned remain some of the most popular, influential motorcycles to come out of the 1960s. Here […]
Big Bore Virago: 1050cc Yamaha XV750 Custom Fighter
Yamaha “XV1050” Virago from Purpose Built Moto… There are certain donor bikes that turn up again and again in the custom world, and the Yamaha Virago (XV) is one such platform. Many years ago, builders […]
