White Hot: Upcycle hot rods the Yamaha XS1100
We don’t see many Yamaha XS1100s around these days, which is a shame—it was an absolute beast of a machine. It was…
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Muscle Rétro: A Yamaha XJR1300 from Bad Winners
Bad Winners is one of those shops that consistently do good work. It’s owned by Frenchman Walid Ben Lamine, who has an…
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CP3: JvB-Moto’s ballistic Yamaha XSR900 custom
After an incredible seven years, Yamaha’s Yard Built custom program is still firing on all cylinders. In 2012 it kicked off with…
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Speed Block style: A Yamaha XZ 550 restomod
Every time Maarten Poodt completes another project, we feel like we’re looking at some obscure, classic Yamaha that we’ve never heard of.…
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Custom Bikes Of The Week: 2 December, 2018
A pair of Yamaha cafe racers from the opposite ends of the capacity spectrum, Roland Sands gets stuck into the Indian FTR…
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Solid Gold: Greg Hageman restyles the Yamaha MT-07
Wrap any decent Yamaha in a good King Kenny livery, and you’ve got an instant crowd-pleaser. But this Yamaha MT-07 from Greg…
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Juiced! A McLaren Orange Yamaha MT-10 from deBolex
The Yamaha MT-10 is about as mental as naked bikes get. The 998 cc inline-four makes a stonking 158 hp and 111…
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Double Vision: Two Yamaha XS650 cafe racers from Hookie
The correct answer to ‘How many bikes?’ is always ‘one more.’ And these two dapper Yamaha XS650s from German wunderkind Nico Mueller…
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981: A dark and luxurious Yamaha TR1 from Budapest
Despite having a population of almost ten million people—more that Denmark or Switzerland—Hungary has a pretty low profile on the European custom…
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Custom Bikes Of The Week: 23 September, 2018
The Yamaha XSR700 gets the looks to match its performance, Paton releases a street legal version of Michael Dunlop’s IoM TT bike,…
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Testbed: An XSR900 crammed with cutting-edge tech
The new wave custom scene was originally built on a love for the old school. But these days, we’re seeing more ‘neo’…
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Triple Whammy: three new Yamahas from Auto Fabrica
Put together a top ten list of the world’s best custom bike builders, and Auto Fabrica would have to be in there.…
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