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Hellion Yamaha Powered Big Twin by Greggs Customs

By Paul Crowe

Hellion Yamaha powered sport bike by Greggs Customs

Here’s another take on a big twin custom with a sport bike attitude, this is the Hellion by Greggs Customs. Powered by a Yamaha Road Star Warrior 102 cubic inch V-Twin engine in a 4130 chromoly tube frame, most of the parts and pieces that make up this bike were fabricated in house by Greggs Customs.

I saw this bike a couple of months ago and forgot about it until Hugo pointed to it in a comment about Curt Winter’s Twin Cam sport bike. It’s a nice looking build and also different because it uses the Yamaha engine instead of a Harley Davidson or one of the similar V-Twin engines more often seen. Variety is good.

If this kind of custom sport bike shows up more often, we could see a trend here. Now, when will a manufacturer take the hint and do this themselves and why haven’t they done it already? They already have the engines, just build a bike around it. They look good, they sound good and they have to be one helluva lot of fun, what’s the hold up?

Hellion Yamaha powered sport bike by Greggs Customs

Link: Greggs Customs

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Posted on August 8, 2007 Filed Under: Motorcycle Builders


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Comments

  1. Hugo says

    August 8, 2007 at 8:08 am

    Wasn’t Yamaha’s MT01 a concept from a manufacturer in this direction? Altough they used a lot of aluminium, etc. the MT01 is still heavy while the bikes like this concept or Curt Winter’s turn out some 20-40kg’s lighter which is where the manufacturers should aim for. If Buell can built a lightweight V-twin air-cooled sportsbike then the Japanese shouldn’t have a problem with it.
    The Helion looks really cool, but the paint job distracts from the bike…

  2. Andy says

    August 8, 2007 at 8:20 am

    Awesome, truly funky single-side swingarm! nice detailing too.

  3. Andy says

    August 8, 2007 at 8:33 am

    Hugo, How’s the Bottpower project coming along?

  4. Duke says

    August 8, 2007 at 9:02 am

    Couldn’t they just paint it a color?

  5. aaron says

    August 8, 2007 at 9:23 am

    yeah! but isn’t the rear suspension EXACTLY the same as the MT-01 concept?

    ok – time to nitpick: I don’t like the, uh, umm…. ahh… well that thing under the engine looks a little out of place, (more angular than anything else on the bike) and yeah – the paint is a bit much. I want one!!!!

    yamaha really should market that motor as a crate job for customs – it has a good look, and would beat emissions regulations….

  6. Hugo says

    August 8, 2007 at 9:35 am

    Hi Andy, at the moment going real slow. The guy who’s doing the building has two jobs at the moment of which one is for a top racing team 😉 he doesn’t know the word spare time. I can’t do anything at the moment, so it takes a little more time…

  7. Kirk Taylor says

    August 8, 2007 at 9:46 am

    I like it a lot ,looks muscular,yet light.As far as the paint,I figure if you take that much effort to build a bike youll want it to stand out. It dose

  8. curt winter says

    August 8, 2007 at 9:57 am

    Great looking bike Gregg, I missed the bike night at San Leandro’s Straw Hat Pizza this past Monday, maybe next month we can hook up and take our rides down there.

    Curt
    Big Twin Racers.

  9. Ben says

    August 8, 2007 at 2:53 pm

    i realy love thoses custom sport twin , in the article it is mentioned its too bad there is no such things in the market from the big corp.

    well i found the suzuki SV 1000 S , is pretty close to thoses machines and if you have a chance to try one, go for it, its a wonderfull machine.

    and by the way, i love your site folks, long live to kneeslider.

    Ben from Montreal Canada

  10. GAMBLER says

    August 8, 2007 at 4:49 pm

    GREGG is an artist with metal!
    but the paint is a horrible eyesore

    pick a solid silver to accent that gorgeous frame

  11. chris says

    August 8, 2007 at 5:52 pm

    i like the paint. . . the rest of the bike is flawless. this should be in a showroom. i like buells, but this is a whole different level. awesome.

  12. hoyt says

    August 8, 2007 at 7:21 pm

    Gregg, Curt Winter & Mike Cooke (American Cafe Racer) have built fantastic big twin bikes…by hand, by themselves for sometime now.

    This is a great trend.

  13. Sean says

    August 9, 2007 at 3:17 pm

    Amazing frame, amazing looking engine, amazing paintjob, amazing swingarm, amazing tank and tail. The only thing not amazing is the fact I will never ride it, however much I want to. Jeeze kneeslider, doesn’t the missus get annoyed with you spending so much time on the computer?

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