Comments on: Your Perfect Custom Motorcycle is On Sale Now

By: aaron

aaron — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 22:15:12 +0000

looks like there are quite a few of us working on sr/xt/tt/srx yamaha engined cafes. chris- if you feel like sharing any ideas on the trellis frame, let me know….. this is the biggest part of my project, I’m looking at a hybrid steel/aluminium similar to the mv agusta F4.

By: Artie Bennett

Artie Bennett — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:35:45 +0000

Thanks!

By: RD350

RD350 — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 18:50:57 +0000

And of course, the Japanese have the nicest SR stuff imaginable:

http://www.omc-1981.co.jp/ (in Japanese … but click on links on the left for great pictures)

By: RD350

RD350 — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 18:36:09 +0000

Try this page to get some ideas. With SR500s the sky is the limit.

http://www.thumperpage.com/pix/archive/Yamaha/Yamaha_pix.html

I am doing an SRX600 at the moment … the son of the SR500.

By: Artie Bennett

Artie Bennett — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:55:15 +0000

I am currently researching parts to build one of these. My doner bike is a 1978 Yamaha SR500. I picked it a couple of years ago from a neighbor who started to make it into an ice racer. He got all the street legal stuff stripped off and then it sat for many years in a corner of his garage. After several years of bugging him he sold it to me for $27.50 (not a typo! – it was the cost he had into it for carb parts) it has a bent front wheel, no muffler, dented tank, and lots of rust but the engine turns over, in fact he drove it over. A perfect doner bike if I do say so myself. These are neat bikes – I owned a ‘79 for 10 years and put 53,000 miles on it so I know what I am getting into. I could use suggestions on what fits on this thing. I am looking closely at Yamha 600 radian parts and or parts along thoes lines – light weight and somewhat modern.