How's this for a little cracker? Yam's SR500 has been the staple of many of the original Bratstyle builds, and it's easy to see why. Fins, narrow profile, nice round cases...all the hallmarks of a cafe-correct motor. Everything else is bang-on here, too...seat, skinny tank, black mags, and period hoops look just SOOO right.
All kinds of stuff goin' on with this Chica build - board tracker, cafe, 60s chopper...maybe it doesn't make you think 'gotta have it' like most of his stuff, but pretty nice all the same. Chica's work is an object lesson in fit, finish and quality.
Isn't that nice? Funny how a seat can totally make a bike. USDs, mags and killa brakes/shox don't hurt, either.
Amother in my unofficial series paying homage to what it without doubt the custom bike world's greatest achievement, the unfeasible apehanger. Here, the righteous brother in question is actually in on the joke, it's one of the lads from the excellent 'sideburn' flat traker 'zine, who bent up these nutty apes to annoy the Triumph/sportsbike faithful. It worked, by all accounts...
random cafe shots for ya...one of which looks like it gets used a whole lot more than the other one!
Trikes are definitely OK in my book, and this here is a fine example. The pic is from Blue's BSH blog again, from LICS. Got a feeling this is gonna be in the mag next month.
Definitely built with covering long distances in mind, even the mind-snappin' truck-style exhaust stacks pale into insignificance compared to the feat of chopper alchemy that is THOSE BARS. 