Custom Bikes Of The Week: 3 March, 2019
We’re back with an extremely oddball selection: possibly the world’s ugliest MV Agusta, a Yamaha XSR700 homage to Claude Fior, a gorgeous…
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In garages all over the world, owners dream of creating their very own customised motorcycle. Yamaha has enabled this by asking talented custom bike builders to provide inspiration on how to transform modern Yamaha models into what they have called ‘Yard Built specials.’
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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Space Explorer: Lucky Cat Garage’s sci-fi Yamaha XV950R
If you grew up in Japan in the 1950s or 1960s, you probably wanted a ‘Sonicon Rocket.’ It was a little battery-powered…
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A smokin’ XSR700 tribute to the FZR750 ‘Gauloises’ racer
Epic 80s endurance racers and over-the-top sprint bikes both get our motors running here at EXIF. Now Workhorse Speed Shop has just…
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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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Custom Bikes Of The Week: 10 December, 2017
Got wood? Yamaha’s latest Yard Built custom has plenty of it, and looks amazing. We’ve also got a super-tough Honda CBX1000 streetfighter,…
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Custom Bikes Of The Week: 24 September, 2017
If you’re into 1970s racebikes, you’ll love this Yamaha TZ750-inspired XSR900 from Jeff Palhegyi—it’s one of the best Yard Built customs yet.…
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The Orbiter: A scrambled XSR700 from Maria Motorcycles
In two weeks, Yamaha will go public with a new adventure bike—a production version of the T7 concept that a small group…
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Juicy: Jigsaw’s candy orange Yamaha XSR700 tracker
The Yamaha XSR700 is a smash hit with both owners and journalists in Europe, and two years after its introduction, it’s becoming…
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Q&A: A manufacturer’s view of the custom scene
Over the past couple of years, no manufacturer has commissioned more custom bikes than Yamaha Motor Europe. The Yard Built program has…
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Custom Bikes Of The Week: 5 March, 2017
Sleek new metal from Rough Crafts, a museum-worthy Honda race replica from Down Under, and BMW turns its youngest engineers loose on…
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All Systems Go: Yamaha’s Brat Style SCR950
EXCLUSIVE: Every time someone refers to their bike as a ‘brat-style’ build, we let out a groan. There’s only one builder that…
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