Written by Martin Hodgson
In the proud city of Brescia, Italy, they’ve long valued innovation and tradition in everything they do. It is the home of motorcycling God Giacomo Agostini and firearms producer Beretta, so you can imagine they didn’t take it lying down when the Italian GP was moved from their city. Instead, they came up with the grueling Mille Miglia and like everything in the Lombardy region they do it their own way. So when searching for a workshop to breathe life back into his long-deceased Yamaha TR1, Alessandro Gallina stayed local and selected Remastered Cycle to build him a street scrambler that’s off the chain, appropriately called Django.

The TR1 was almost lost forever, having spent the last 25 years hidden from the world in a small barn near the beautiful Lake Iseo. Its owner had parked the bike up before passing away and for nearly three decades the V-Twin sat lifelessly. But after a chance encounter with the heir of the estate Alessandro had in his possession a Yamaha in need of life saving surgery and a thorough makeover. So he turned to award winning local builders, Luca Morelli and Samuele Borsarini, of Remastered fame.
?The goal was to transform the TR1 from a classic 80?s bike into a scrambler with urban connotations that would convey power and elegance; keeping intact two typical Yamaha aesthetic formats, the V engine along with the well-known XV rims and the original old license plate which by itself is a tangible link w...