Yamaha Sr500 Cafe Racer Build

That means a huge aftermarket and plenty of forums when issues arise.

Yamaha sr500 cafe racer build. See more ideas about sr 500, yamaha, cafe racer. We’ve built café racers, trackers, scramblers and a few that defied description. The list of mods is long, but worth the read. 1978 yamaha sr500 cafe racerthis bike is an excellent ride.everything on this bike is either new or rebuilt to better than new.all work done by owner,who build bike s and cars.all machine work done by fletchers cycles in memphis tn.in business 42 years great machinist.you won’t be able to build this bike for what it is selling for.i have sold my 5 other bikes wasn’t sure i would sell this.

Aber mein yamaha café racer sollte natürlich nicht nur schön aussehen, sondern vor allem gefahren werden. This is a complete custom, frame off, cafe racer based on a yamaha sr500. The yamaha sr is a great thumper. A whopping 41kg of excess weight was removed from the’93 sr500 sp to get it down to only 124kg.

But we’re beginning to think he’s a little obsessive. Yamaha started building the sr400 and sr500 in the late 70s. Tuned for maximum performance over the short haul, it was usually a secondhand bike that didn’t break the bank—and was tweaked on a budget. Some would say i must have been living under a rock, and rightly so.

This yamaha sr500 went onto the mule motorcycles bench for some basic upgrades. Let’s take a closer look. The bike has been part of or invited to custom shows including the one moto, fuel cleveland, ama vintage days, barber vintage days, etc. It was well received when we initially featured it, and went on to earn a spot among our top five yamaha sr500s.

Blueprint for a budget cafe half a century ago, a café racer was a bike stripped to the essentials. See more ideas about yamaha sr400, cafe racer, sr 500. Moto gadget blaze disc bar end turn signals. It wasn’t until i featured our first yamaha trx850 cafe racer back in 2013 that i learned of their existence.

Their sr500 was destined to be a cafe racer and it was going to perform to the best of its ability. The top end of the motor has a fresh rebuild weisco piston and megacycle cam. The yamaha sr500 cafe racer is such a bike. The trx850 was a bold move by yamaha aimed at stirring things up in the european market.

Ich hab jetzt nach der zweiten saison schon 4.500 km auf der uhr und merke jedes mal wenn ich mit der maschine unterwegs bin, dass ich mit der yamaha sr alles richtig gemacht hab. Our most popular kit is the honda cx500 cafe racer kit. It took three years for designer nick to create the sr500 manxy racer, a build from addiction customs, and the focus to detail is evident from the final product. Mid life cycles has almost a decade’s experience working on the most popular base bikes for custom and café racer builds, and top of the list has to be yamaha’s ageless sr400 and sr500 singles.

But as richard dug deeper, he found more and more issues. See more ideas about yamaha, cafe racer, motorcycle. They had a reputation to maintain. This build was based on a yamaha xv1100 virago and is the work of spanish workshop voodoo garage.

Modifications in the yamaha sr500 cafe racer. These bikes are very popular with professional builders and amateurs alike. Modifications to the lower part of the frame and tail section were made prior to the fresh coat of paint. Die letzte große tour hab ich diesen sommer hinter mir.

“it fitted a very common. Ballistic 4 cell li battery. You can build the complete kit or select individual modules to create your unique cafe racer bike. Cafe racer kits and cafe racer spare parts.

This cafe racer is a tribute to the classic manx norton. See more ideas about racer, cafe racer, yamaha. Mikuni t 38 68a flatslide carb. This bike is the most recent build to make the cut on our top 10 yamaha cafe racers list.