NDUGAL: YZ125-style Dirt Machine from Indonesia… Indonesia has become a glowing hotbed of custom motorcycle culture, spawning some of the most creative, ingenious, and truly hand-crafted machines on two wheels. Whereas many custom bikes are […]
Tag: Yamaha
Retro Enduro: Yamaha WR250F Restomod
Gauloises Blondes Edition Yamaha 250 from Holy Moly Motorcycles… The Yamaha WR250F is the off-road / enduro version of the company’s YZ250F motocross bike. In other words, it’s a high-performance trail bike — a race […]
Restomod Racer: Yamaha “YZF R1-7 OW-02”
R7-inspired Restomod Race Bike from DV8 Motorcycles… The late 1980s and early 1990s were heady times for superbike fans. In order to meet the production rules of series like World Superbike and AMA Superbike, manufacturers […]
Retro Enduro: Yamaha XT600 Vinduro
VMX-Style XT600 from Garage Esquinita… Back in 1984, Yamaha introduced the XT600, their new “go-anywhere, do-anything flagship. The 595cc dual-purpose machine could be traced back to the iconic XT/TT500 models, which had proved their […]
Brit-Style Enduro: Yamaha SR150 Scrambler
British-Style Scrambler from AX Studio… The Yamaha SR might just be the world’s most beloved series of single-cylinder street bikes. While we’re most familiar with the SR400 and SR500 variants derived from the XT500 dual-purpose […]
Straight Fazer: Yamaha Fazer 600 “Blackjack”
Reborn Fazer 600 from Blackout Custom Design… The Yamaha FZS600 Fazer — aka the Fazer 600 — was revealed to the public at the 1997 Paris Auto Show. The 599cc 16-valve 95-bhp inline-four came […]
Road Ripper: Yamaha RD350 Street Tracker
The Yamaha RD350 remains one of the most storied two-stroke street bikes of the 1970s. It might not be as a notorious as the widow-making triples of Kawasaki lore, but it was in most respects […]
Mushman Runner: Yamaha XS650 Desert Sled
What if Steve McQueen aka Harvey Mushman decided to build and race an XS650? In a strange twist of fate, the Yamaha XS650, introduced in 1969, took up the standard of the British twins […]
County Carver: Yamaha FZR750 Genesis
From €150 Donor to Endurance-Style 90s Restomod… Jonny Kerins (@jfk_bikes) of Ireland’s County Meath builds and restores bikes out of an old milking parlor on his 1950s farm. His love for sport bikes goes back […]
Ultra Lightweight 500: TT-Powered Yamaha XT500 Street Tracker
From Eric Dean Design: Yamaha XT500 Meets Suzuki TL1000R… The street-legal Yamaha XT500 and its off-road sibling, the TT500, quickly made a name for themselves in the late 1970s. Not only did they win […]
