Led by unconventional visionaries, ICON Motosports crafts motorcycle gear that blurs the lines between audacious and purposeful, while maintaining a casual indifference to conventional opinions. They also occasionally find time to build custom motorcycles?and when they do, the machines they create mirror the bold ethos of their gear.
Meet ‘Gixxer Johnny,’ a ?plastic-covered, over-built, and under-thunk? Suzuki GSX-R 7/11 that ?puts the ‘ele’ in both ‘gance’ and ‘phant.’? At least, that’s how ICON’s design director, Kurt Walter, describes it.

?Gixxer Johnny is an answer to a question that was never asked,? he adds. ?We acquired her third-hand from a repo yard in NE Portland as part of a Jamaican catch and release program. Documentation indicates she is a 1993-era Suzuki GSX-R750 frame with a GSX-R1100 motor?referred to by us analogs as a ‘7/11’.? ?With little regard for period correct and a penchant for cyberpunk, the ICON crew set to refitting her for modern tastes.?

Needless to say, the donor bike was pretty beaten up. So ICON’s first job was rebuilding the motor. A new bank of Wiseco pistons went in before everything was buttoned up again with Wiseco pistons.
ICON deleted the airbox, favoring a set of uber-tasty 3D-printed velocity stacks for the Mikuni carbs. (Although if you scrutinize the action photos, you’ll notice that filters are fitted for dirtier rides.) Bespoke PBI sprocket...