Maybe the Coolest 250 Virago on the Planet!


Special Thanks To Matt Fuller fr this really slick build. Looks like a lot of fun to ride!

It all started in 1989 when I was just 5 years of age and my father borrowed a yamaha y-zinger 50 from work for the weekend. I learned how to ride a motorcycle that weekend and learned to love motorcycles for the rest of my life. It wasn’t long before i would start taking things apart and seeing how they worked. Soon after that I was required to maintain my own motorcycle if I intended to ride it on the weekend. In 2008 I started riding on the street daily as a form of transportation. Soon after that I stopped using a motorcycle as daily transportation due to a accident and a severely broken leg and began Racing sup ermoto in the southeast. Currently I race Flattrack and occasionally a hare scranble to stay in shape. I have enjoyed painting, powder coating, and fab ricating some of my custom race bikes so much that I have decided to build a few custom bikes to see what they bring us. Whether it’s building for a living or for fun my passion for motorcycles will never fade away.

This bike started life as a 1997 Yamaha Xv250 Virago, the bike that many fall in lov e with at the riders safety training classes all over the world. The wheelbase was shortened 4″ and it was de-raked to 24.5 degrees. Subframe and swin garm are custom along with the exhaust. The sound this bike makes is incredible, breathing through a downdraft carb with a factory velocity stack and calculated air intake plenum. Then sucked in with some less than boring factory camshafts and two fairly high compression ratio cylinders. After all of that comes the pleasing part, exhaust gasses are forced out of equal leng th stainless steel head pipes and on out the under seat tail pipes. The paint gives it a retro Yamaha look that many like along with the 18″ aluminum mx wheels. For proper riding position, a set of aluminum rear sets were adapted from a road race bike on one end and a set of simple flat bars on the other end.

I Hope you enjoy!
-Matt Fuller
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A nice Kawazuki Motard.


A Kawasaki badged DRZ400 Supermoto. Spotted last weekend. A lot of nice touches.
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A pair of Vespa’s at a local “Eco” salvage shop.


Wasn’t looking for them but there they were.  EcoRelics in Jacksonville Florida. They just do old salvageable stuff and don’t specialize n motorcycles.. at all. $3100 each. The yellow one is tempting.
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If you like classic Honda Cafe’s..


If you like classic Honda Cafe’s then check this out and just keep scrolling.  Eugene has it going on over there.
http://hondacaferacers.com/

 

The earlier Triple Tracker is done.. and WOW!


Thanks to Rob Loake for the follow up. This is a seriously sweet build!

The Kwaktrakker is finished!!
1971 Kawasaki H1a 500
This is a 1970’s HOOLIGAN, revived and given steroids…soooo much fun…thanks for looking…Rob Loake

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A shoutout to 57 Garage in Brazil


Sent me a link and I like their work a lot.  Check em out.  Nice shop with some creative builds!  Thanks guys!

57 Garage Cycles <57garagebrasil@gmail.com>

Hi dude,

We are a custom shop in Brazil and I was wondering if you could feature on your site one of our motorcyles?
Cheers,
THAIS MANZOTTI

57 GARAGE
Manager
Phone> +55 11 4329-9773
Direct > +55 11 9.9511-8204
Direct > +55 11 9.7753-6774
Email > 57garage@57garage.com.br
Facebook > http://www.facebook.com/57garage
Instagram > http://www.instagram.com/57garage

Av. Dr. Ricardo Jafet, 541
Sao Paulo, 04260-020

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Steampunk CB100


Hongkingkong Hong

Here is a view picture of my bike …it was a honda cb 100 ..its was build on its original frame and the concept take a steampunk approach ..can say it was perfect but i really hope it can be uploadeP_20150918_232840P_20150919_000924_20150919105634678P_20150918_235115P_20150919_000551_20150921102253128P_20150919_000403P_20150918_235050P_20150918_234400P_20150918_233750d to your blog or website ..thnk you very much”

Oh lord I want one.


Saw this at Total Motorcycle. a 1200 Thruxton!

LOTS MORE HERE!
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Very little info on these fantastic builds


Thanks Shannon. Anything to add? Last submittal from that address goes back to 2012 as far as I can tell anyway.

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