Yamaha XS400 tracker
It’s usually Yamaha’s XS650 that gets the custom treatment, so it’s nice to see a smaller capacity XS get a workover. This…
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Minus the mid-century innovations by Yamaha, Honda, and Suzuki, one could argue that motorcycling might be a lost art today. With their small engines, low profiles, and street-rider stances, these lightweight hallmarks of design give new riders all over the world a way into the fray, and experienced riders the perfect minimal ride.
These days, Yamaha motorcycles are at the core of the custom scene. They offer the perfect platforms for stylish urban rides with cheap price tags.
Models like the Yamaha XS650, SR400, XSR700 and XSR900 are among a legendary line of Yamaha motorcycles that beg to be turned into café racers, bobbers and trackers—and they fill our galleries of great builds.
Chappell Customs Yamaha XS650
I love discovering builders that have been floating underneath the internet radar—guys who are doing good work, but largely unrecognized. Chappell Customs…
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Yamaha XS400 custom
Bike EXIF is primarily a showcase of rare and esoteric motorcycles. But every now and then, we see a bottom-dollar custom that…
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The way we were
It’s hard to believe that Bike EXIF is less than three years old. It was a much simpler endeavor in the early…
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Yamaha SR500 by Lossa Engineering
This is the cleanest Yamaha SR500 café racer I’ve seen for a long, long time—the Lossa Engineering ‘Solus’. It recently starred in…
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Classified Moto’s 1982 Yamaha Virago custom
The stock Yamaha Virago is no great prize, but Classified Moto’s John Ryland loves putting a positive spin on one. ‘XV920R6-R’ is…
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Spirit of The Seventies’ Yamaha street tracker
Sometimes it’s the relatively simple custom jobs that are the most effective. And this street tracker from London-based Spirit of The Seventies…
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Deus Oddjob Yamaha SR500
If you had to list the builders at the top of today’s custom scene, most observers would put Deus in the top…
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Yamaha YZR500
By Richard Fowler of Motorsport Retro—This exquisite piece of rolling sculpture is Yamaha’s 1975 YZR500. It’s the OW23 variant, the machine that…
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Forum Bike Of The Month: Dennis’ Yamaha RD400
If the Yamaha SR400 is the easy-going, easily swayed favorite of café racer builders, the two-stroke Yamaha RD400 is its delinquent half-brother.…
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An-Bu’s edgy, low-slung Yamaha cafe racer
In the port city of Nagoya, An-Bu builds stripped-back, edgy customs that manage to look both raw and slick at the same…
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Custom Yamaha Scorpio by Deus Bali
The Yamaha Scorpio has been derided as a hopped-up farm bike, but in Asia it’s the perfect commuter machine. It’s also a…
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