Tag - Yamaha

CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’: Yamaha TW125 by ND Motociclette

If you hang around a custom bike shop long enough to sit through a morning tea break or after hours for a beer, then you'll hear all sorts of crazy ideas get thrown around. Most are mere fantasies about things nobody within a stone's throw has the budget to...

EDGE OF YOUR SEAT: Yamaha XV920 Virago by 485 Designs

Written by Tim Huber. Over the last few years Yamaha’s venerable Virago has become an increasingly popular platform for customization, trumped by the likes of the CX500, CB750, and Dominator. And while it’s difficult to pin-down the first shop to treat...

STROKE OF GENIUS: Yamaha RD350 by Jake Shellito

Written by Tim Huber. While it’s not his first custom two-wheeler, Jake Shellito’s entire bike building career had been leading up to this candy red Yamaha project. The result of a mild fascination and curiosity that later became a near-obsession, this...

FIGHTING SPIRIT: Yamaha XV750 by Beekhof Motorcycle Builds

Written by Tim Huber. Building custom motorcycles allows for an immense amount of creativity and self-expression, though with so many new builds appearing each week, it’s become increasingly difficult to produce something that’s truly unique, thereby...

CLASSICALLY TRAINED: ‘The Deuce’ Yamaha RD350 by James Berreau

It's easy to look at big workshops full of the latest tools and be envious, imagining if only you had them at your disposal. But as MacGyver showed us on TV, if you really know what you're doing you can save the world a thousand times over with just a Swiss...

CREAM OF THE CROP: Yamaha XT550 by Zombie Gelato

Wherever in the world you go, it's not long before you find a kindred spirit who shares a love for motorcycles; it's a truly universal language. But while that passion burns deep across the globe, nowhere is it so heavily ingrained in the national psyche than...

DEVIL IS IN THE DETAIL: Yamaha XV750 by Purpose Built Moto

They say the devil is in the detail, and it is this aspect that separates the best from the rest amongst the thousands of custom bikes built every year. The ability to incorporate form and function into every aspect of a bike and yet still stay true to a...

TURKISH DELIGHT: Yamaha Yard Built XSR900 ‘Chimera’ by Bunker Customs

Written by Tim Huber. Created by Bruce Lee in the mid-to-late 1960s, Jeet Kune Do is a philosophy and form of martial arts that places immense importance on the development of one’s spirit and skills, while the combat aspect puts a major emphasis on...

THE ULTIMATE TRIBUTE: Yamaha TR1 by Alec Birkbeck

Tributes can take on many forms, the words offered at a funeral or a photo that lives on the wall. But there are others whose lives demand so much more, having lived the maxim, 'Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of...

DOUBLE DUTCH: Yamaha XT600 by Pancake Customs

Written by Martin Hodgson It's long been said that travel broadens the mind and there is nothing like a trip to the Sahara desert to teach a great many lessons. It was there a few years ago amongst the enormous and unforgiving sand dunes that custom bike...