Written by Andrew Jones
There are few things more subjective in this world than taste. One person’s coolest-ever custom can so easily be another’s garish bad taste nightmare. Who are we to say that certain types of bikes are cooler than others" It’s all too easy to giggle at other people’s bikes you think are ugly until you realise that you’re the one that’s been left behind, not them. So when Moto Adonis? Daan Borsje saw a neon-drenched, swingarm-stretched, Tokyo-driftin? Hayabusa race in the Caribbean city of Curaçao, he didn’t hate. Instead, he took a Yamaha XV1100 and started to create.

On holidays in the Dutch colony, Daan’s cold turkey moto cravings got the better of him. So when he saw the bikes gathering, he couldn’t resist checking them out. ?During the race, I got to thinking,? says Daan. ?While the bike’s weren’t exactly my style, I did like the long rear swingarms to keep the bikes from wheelying on full throttle.? Silver linings, much"
Back in his dike-lovin? motherland, Dan was staring down the barrel if yet another Virago custom job. If only there was a way to make it a little different from the rest. Then, lightbulb! ?The Yamaha TR1 (aka the XV1100) is a hard bike to find in the Netherlands, but we managed to locate one and we really wanted to give it a little something special.? A bit of brainstorming, and boom. ?We decided to give it a kind of slammed lowrider meets c...