To celebrate the two decades of their friendship, they’ve started racing flat track together. So when Indian Motorcycle commissioned the Scout ?Shrimp? tracker from Anvil, the boys built a set of matching race bikes for themselves too.
Phonz’s bike is Little Boy (#11) and San Marco’s is Fat Man (#52). At a glance they look the same?but they’re actually very different. Little Boy has a Suzuki DR600 motor in a DR500 frame, and Fat Man is based on a Honda XR600.

The XR600 is sporting a new front end too, with a set of modified forks and triples from a Yamaha R6. For the wheels, the guys laced a set of 19? Excel rims to the original XR hubs. As is the norm in flat track racing, there’s no front brake?but the rear brake’s been refreshed with a new disc and pads from Newfren. Little Boy’s donor bike is a bit of a mash-up too (below). Phonz wanted the compactness of the older Suzuki DR500’s chassis, but with a bigger motor. So the guys wedged a 1990 DR600 mill into a 1981 DR500 frame?which meant fabricating new engine mounts.

To achieve uniformity, Anvil built almost identical subframes for both bikes. On the XR600, that meant converting the rear end from Honda’s trusty Pro-Link monoshock to a dual-shock system. Both rears were then fitted with new Bitubo shocks, and capped off with matching number boards, and aluminum rear fenders.
For the seats, Anvil wanted to move away from the more common flat track tail sections, t...