In the world of professional motorcycle racing, development is a constant grind.
Hooligan flat track racing is the same. But here, the upgrades are done by racers and builders on tight budgets. Not massive teams of engineers with eighteen-wheeler trucks full of SnapOn tools.

So we?re fascinated by the way Scott ‘T-Bone’ Jones of Noise Cycles has rebuilt his fire-breathing Street Rod 750 tracker. It’s the same 2017-spec XG750M he raced with last year?but it’s evolved radically since then.
As the season ended, Scott and teammate Brandon ‘Gonz’ Gonzalez had a clear idea of how to build a better racer…so they did.

?The concept for this year was to make a functioning bike,? Gonz tells us. ?This meant making the bike narrower.? ?The last version paid homage to the XR1000, but in doing so the bike ended up wider than what was ideal to race with. The exhaust sat high and wide, to the point where it was uncomfortable to ride. That had to change.?

The initial idea was to build a new one-piece body, out of fiberglass. But after taking inspiration from pro flat track and supercross, the guys started wondering if they could simply adapt a set of motocross panels to fit the Street Rod.
?Our friends at SMCO happened to have a Husqvarna FC450, which is my favorite motocross bike? says Gonz. ?So we borrowed their plastics to test fit.?

The fit, amazingly, was close to perfect. So Noise acquired their own set, and massaged it to fit?fabrica...