Custom Bikes Of The Week: 28 April, 2019
Each week, we scour the internet to bring you the juiciest five motorcycles that we haven’t already featured. Today we’ve got a Yamaha SR500 street tracker from Milan, a BMW R nineT from Belgium, and a vintage Norton from Luxembourg. Plus Steve McQueen’s Husky, and a B?s?zoku-inspired contraption from the lads at CROIG.
Yamaha SR500 by Deus Milano The crew at Deus Milano put the blame for this project squarely on Marco Belli’s shoulders. Marco’s a highly decorated flat track racer, that runs the Di Traverso flat track school in Italy. When a Deus staffer?also named Marco?took the Di Traverso course, he immediately wanted a street tracker for urban use.
And so this was built?a Yamaha SR500 with flat track chops and plenty of street style. With a quintessential flat track tail, a slick paint job and one of the nicest tracker seats we’ve seen, it sure is pretty. But Deus have treated it to a number of functional upgrades too.
The swing arm’s been upgraded to an aluminum unit from SDG, connected to a pair of Öhlins shocks. The rims are 19? Excels, wrapped in flat track rubber, and the brakes are from Discacciati. Deus have also installed a new piston, done some head work, and added a Keihin FCR carb.
CNC-machined foot pegs, new handlebars (with internal wiring), a ‘fast response’ throttle and bar-end turn signals round out the control package. The exhaust is from SC Project, and the classic motocross headlight is fr...
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