The Yamaha SR is without any doubt one of the most popular motorcycles used around the world for customization. Low price and user-friendly for daily rides. Many of them being turned into Cafe Racer type machines. The simple addition of clip-on handle bars, extended rear suspension, trials tires and a thumped up and heat wrapped side pipe may be all what some are ready to do to remain on a small budget, but it’s only the start of the custom build for many others.
The build process of Tomahawk II by Gasoline Motorcycles started, as always, with stripping the clutter which included chopping off the rear tail supports and removing unnecessary, brackets, leaving intact from the donor bike only the seat base structure. Metal work, with improving performance, is where professional builders most justify their intervention. Fabricator Jason formed a rear tail hump and Inside an electrical box (formerly a stainless steel towel dispenser!) was fitted to house the mess of wiring. The hump was completed with the installation of a recessed vintage taillight.
All new metal parts, brackets and fittings were hand fabricated from recycled steel. Who doesn’t love bare metal? So, all parts were thoroughly cleaned, scuffed then clear coated for protection and to produce dancing reflections under any type of light.
A nice job to please many youngsters and accomplished in just 3 weeks! Gasoline Custom Motorcycles. (photography @ Josh Clapp edited by Nick Walsh)
These guys made a nice ride out of the yamaha
Yes, certainly a “nice ride”…..no doubt.
But knobbies on a cafe-racer….. ???
Please, that’s not credible on so many levels it invites ridicule..
-nicker-
Sorry, hate To keep complaining about the same thing about every other blog! Not like it’s amateur night I’ve been building custom bikes for 40 years, so think my opinion is valid, at least to me 😉 just can’t understand why some of these builders will make a very nice bike, then ruin it by puting either a rear tire on the front or knobbies on a custom or a chopper..WTF
Keep knobbies on dirt bikes, and 500 by 16 s on earlier baggers
Knobblies for a dirt Main St?
Looks more like Trials tires to me. “But Anyway” wrong choice for a Cafe Racer if that is what it is. Great job on the Brake Light and Plate bracket. ..Z
Very Cool !!!!
Not my “cup of tea”,
but cool nonetheless