Yamaha XS650 Café Racer
Saturday, May 22, 2010 
We love receiving emails from Ted at XS650chopper.com because he knows we get excited by Yamaha café racers. Frank Derris the owner and builder of this immaculate bike writes: "The concept was to blend old with new hence the crossover Yamaha racing paint scheme with the ton up stripe. I wanted the bike to handle and run as good as it could on tube tires and it does. I wanted to be able to look through the bike and see nothing but hard parts (no wiring, bolts or unsightly junk) 3 years of part time work. You judge the finished product." The parts come from a variety of bikes but they all work seemlessly together, the forks are from a 87 FZR 600, rear swing arm from a 1988 Radian, front rotor 87 FZR1000 and front caliper from a 98 Suzuki Bandit 600. The 2 gallon steel tank, seat and fairing have been painted in a fresh Corvette velocity yellow with classic black racing stripes. The impressive exhaust is a custom built 1¾ shell pipes with tuned port and exhaust port optimizers. You can read the complete spec list and view some more pics on XS650 Chopper.
Reader Comments (5)
Pretty
Beautiful. it sold on Craigslist for $6000 recently
Really?
This thing is an overpriced piece of junk in my opinion. It has not sold on CL for $6k, as he is still floggin it on Ebay and CL constantly.
The issue is he took the rotted tank and cut the bottom out to turn it into a skin. He then took a TINY 2 gallon tank from a MOPED and strapped it onto the frame, added padding, then plonked the skin back on top.
Buy a tank from Evan Wilcox and make this thing halfway decent....
Nice job, great lines!
ohh men! what a beuty bike, men the only bike over this world that I give anything to have is Harley Davison V-Rod night edition, if you can take a lot of this machine, I watch it the first time in a store, by the way I found that store because I been looking for my normal Generic Viagra doses, after this I start my own saving money to buy it.