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Yamaha XS650 by ICON 1000

Ben Branch December 13, 2013
  • American
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Engineering
  • Motorcycles
  • Retro
  • Yamaha

The Yamaha XS650 is right up there with the Honda CB750 as one of the most desirable and iconic motorcycle engines to come out…

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Yamaha XS 400 Custom

Ben Branch December 4, 2013
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Motorcycles
  • Retro
  • Yamaha

The humble Yamaha XS 400 is often overlooked by people who are lured by the larger XS650 and although I’m well aware of the…

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Yamaha RD250 by Patrick Sauter

Ben Branch October 11, 2013
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • German
  • Japanese
  • Motorcycles
  • Yamaha

This Yamaha RD250 is a phoenix of sorts, it was being sold in Germany on eBay earlier this year and was more than likely…

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Yamaha XJR 1200 by it roCkS!bikes

Ben Branch October 2, 2013
  • Cafe Racers
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Engineering
  • Motorcycles
  • Yamaha

It roCkS!bikes is the slightly unusually named Portuguese motorcycle garage that brought us the remarkably handsome CB750 custom earlier this year, that bike is…

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Yamaha Bolt Custom by Doc’s Chops

Ben Branch September 19, 2013
  • American
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Japanese
  • Motorcycles
  • Retro
  • Scrambler Motorcycles
  • Yamaha

In a stroke of marketing genius, the team at Yamaha gave brand new Yamaha Bolts to 10 of the nations top bike builders and…

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1977 Yamaha XT500

Ben Branch September 5, 2013
  • Japanese
  • Off Road
  • Retro
  • Yamaha

The Yamaha XT500 is one of those motorcycles that came before its time – it was an ‘adventure bike’ before there really was such a…

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Yamaha DT50 MX by Håkan Persson

Ben Branch August 19, 2013
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Enduro
  • Motorcycles
  • Retro
  • Yamaha

Håkan Persson is one of those curiously talented people that seems to be frustratingly good at everything he puts his mind to. Take this…

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Yamaha XS360

Ben Branch July 2, 2013
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Motorcycles
  • Retro
  • Yamaha

This Yamaha XS360 is one of those bikes that was brought back from the dead – when it was found by Shamus Mathers it was in such poor condition that even the individual nuts and bolts had to be replaced.

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Yamaha A-N-D FFE 350 by Julian Farnam

Ben Branch April 16, 2013
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Design
  • Engineering
  • Motorcycles
  • Rare
  • Yamaha

This is the second piece in a new series on Silodrome written by the talented Jason Cormier, Jason is a writer, an avid motorcyclist,…

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Yamaha XS 360 by The Hookie

Ben Branch April 5, 2013
  • Cafe Racers
  • German
  • Motorcycles
  • Retro
  • Yamaha

The Yamaha XS360 is an interesting motorcycle, the model never saw a huge production run and were, in many respects, the slightly smaller brother of the much more famous Yamaha XS400.

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Yamaha XS400 Custom

Ben Branch January 24, 2013
  • Australian
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Flat Trackers
  • Motorcycles
  • Retro
  • Scrambler Motorcycles
  • Yamaha

Brett over at Hand Made Vintage Customs has a knack for building refreshingly unusual custom motorcycles, this bike is based on a 1980 Yamaha XS400 and it’s a hybrid of both scrambler and tracker schools of motorcycle engineering.

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Yamaha TW200 Custom

Ben Branch December 19, 2012
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Motorcycles
  • Off Road
  • Retro
  • Yamaha

This brilliant Yamaha TW200 custom is the work of art director and designer Joao Alves of somosEstudio.

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