Yamaha

Some useful W650/SR500 info and a sweet little gallery.

Leon wrote in with some great information and links to some SR500 and W650 sites. There is a LOT of temptation in those links. I’ve been keeping an eye out for an SR or XT 500 for a while now.

He also included a zip file (that I almost missed) that had some sweet SR500 pics out in the country. A nice reminder of the simple pleasures. Thanks Leon!

Hi, as you were featuring the w800 i thought i could give you a hint oin featuring the w 650 as well.

here in germany there is a big custom scene around this bike, not as big as for rthe sr 500 and it´s all a bit more expensive (they are rare and you get very good ones for about 4000 to 5000 euros, the cheapest you can get are about 3000(not a bad condition either))

you can get everything you whish for that bike.
aloy tanks, fenders, fairings and so on just look there, it´s even half english:

http://www.w650shop.de/

here you find a very cool scrambler (for me one of the best scrambler builds) the tracker is not bad either
http://www.winni-scheibe.com/ta_fahrberichte/kawasaki/scw650.htm

here some other cool ones http://www.clubman.de/php/newsumbauten.php click on “umbauten” on the left for seeing both the w800 and the w650

And attached some pics of my sr 500 which i unfotunately had to sell

Btw, still a nice blog, but you should have kept the tree of shame header 😛

Greetings,

Some great reader pics from the Kansas Motorcycle Museum.

Thanks goes out to James Meyer for hooking us up with these great shots. Some really sweet old iron in there. Here’s a LINK TO THEIR SITE!

Thank you James!

Tasty Tracker!

Dave Dewey followed up on a project of his that I’ve been spying for a while now.  Looks like she’s done!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And here’s the before Pic!  Nice save!

If you like Yamaha racing bikes..

There’s a nice little photo album over on Superbike Planet

OK I’ll steal just one..

A Stunningly Beautiful Hand Crafted Yamaha RD350 Cafe Racer.

I followed the build thread for this bike for quite a while over on the 2 Stroke World Forum and today I got an e-mail from Ben Alameda with these fantastic pics! I’m a huge fan Ben! Thanks Much!
He writes in:

Hey there,
Love the blog I always follow up on it every week. Here are some pics of my custom 1973 rd350, I hand made all the aluminum body work and fenders from scratch. I also designed and built the pipes myself from stainless. The front wheel is a highly modified motoguzzi eldorado hub which was machined heavily, I added airscoops to both the front and rear drums. I also reinforced the frame with gussets.
-Ben Alameda

What a beauty. I’ve tried banging out a few panels over the years and this sort of skill is almost god given. I don’t often get envious but this is one of those times. Just superb!

The Dirt Fazer!

Manny had made a few comments about his old Dirt Fazer in the FZ! Adventure Bike thread and he was kind ehough to send in some pics of it.  Cool Stuff but a sad ending..
Manny Wrote in:

Hope some of these are OK. Don’t forget most of this stuff is from the film era and it wasn’t so easy to take pictures back then. I owned this bike for 13 years and had a blast with it. One day I was riding it home from work and the countershaft sprocket came off the shaft and the chain wrapped around and locked my rear wheel in the fast lane of a major Montreal highway. I slid to a stop on the inside service lane and took the plate, tools and mirrors, crossed the highway, called my wife to pick me up and abandoned the bike. I had never plated it and ran it on the street with the plate from my other Fazer so it couldn’t be traced to me. That’s the last time I saw it.

A Sweet Little RD350 Cafe Hybrid from India.

From Joshua over at Bugged Shutter:

Just thought i’d send some pics to you. Motorcycle POTD is a great website and in much a great inspiration for someone like me who builds motorcycles in my backyard. I hope you keep the good work up for a long time to come.
A bit more about the bike. It’s an RD350 which is modded a bit. It’s got raised ports and is running on a RDDreams Digital ignition, with bigger carbon fibre reeds. The chassis has been spared all the excess lugs and mounting while the rear sets, the fuel filler and all the other billet stuff built by me. A custom wiring harness, LED lights, and braided brake hoses complete the package. Hope you like it and it finds a place on your site.

Cheers
Joshua

 

1994 FZR600

Saw this in the 4 stroke section of a 2 stroke message board.  Just a beautiful restoration.

 

 

Following on our theme of large Adventure Bikes…

Thanks to”small wheels”  (for the link in the comments thread of the FZ1 build) it seems that there’s a longer history of this than I realized.  As he said it’s “already (been) done in the ’80 by Jean Claude OLIVIER, french importater of Yamaha who even race it at the Paris-Dakar”

And here’s a shot of the 87 version.  Go check out the complete page.  It’s in original German Here… or the Google Translated version Here

A command performance..

In the spirit of the liter sized ADV bikes here’s a re-post from a while back. Love it!