Best Kept Secret: A Yamaha TRX850 revamped in Moscow
If you’re looking for a donor for your next build, look back to the 1990s. That decade is chock-full of untapped potential?hidden gems that might not have been big sellers, but now offer great performance at bargain prices.
We?re quite intrigued by the Yamaha TRX850 in particular. First launched in Japan in 1995, then in Europe a year later, it was something of a parts bin special. It was powered by the same 849 cc parallel twin as the TDM850, but with a 270 degree firing interval.
MCN said it was ?a match for Ducati’s 900SS in its day, but it never sold well.? And it wasn’t bad looking either, with a trellis frame that mimicked the Ducati it was trying to nick sales from.
But is it customizable" One relatively young custom shop in Moscow thinks so. Chemisov Custom Works were handed a 95 TRX850 and an open brief, and responded with this angular café-fighter.
CCW is a two-person team, made up of Ivan Chemisov and his wife, Lyudmila. They’ve been operating for less than two years, but Ivan has plenty of prior moto-experience. He’s worked as a mechanic for sixteen years, including a stint wrenching for a race team.
A desire to do more creative work prompted him to launch CCW, and before long a friend booked in the TRX850 for a makeover. Even better, he gave Ivan and Lyudmila complete creative freedom on the project.
The couple drew inspiration from the most unlikely source. They’d tied the knot in Georgia a month before the bu...
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