SPEED BLOCK STYLE: A YAMAHA XZ 550 RESTOMOD

[weeksy]

https://www.bikeexif.com/yamaha-xz-550-restomod

[Jody]

At least you won't have top struggle to keep the front end on the floor !!

[Yorick]

That's a nice job. But why pick a crap engine ?

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

That's a nice job. But why pick a crap engine ?

Because it's in the crap bike they started with.

[Supermofo]

That's an anti street sleeper, looks great though.

[DefTrap]

Lord, those were so unpopular I'm amazed they found one to modify.

I'm sure the XZ was one of the bikes that the likes of the 'used bike guide' I used to read in the 90s were always telling you to avoid like the plague.

Other than that - nice job!

[Skub]

See,you can put lipstick on a pig.

[Ditchfinder]

That is a very nicely polished turd

[weeksy]

I'm finding it increasingly harder to find bikes that you lot approve of... When i do think i've found it, you hate it LOL.

I was sure that BMW was a shit-fest yesterday and it went down really well.

This one i thought would be right up your street and you all hate it.

I'm not even sure what to go for next.

[Ditchfinder]

Ever had a look on here: https://rocket-garage.blogspot.com, found a few which look more useable on a daily basis whilst still looking good

eg the inspiration for my Triumph project https://rocket-garage.blogspot.com/2016 ... built.html

[weeksy]

Ever had a look on here: https://rocket-garage.blogspot.com, found a few which look more useable on a daily basis whilst still looking good

eg the inspiration for my Triumph project https://rocket-garage.blogspot.com/2016 ... built.html

Not a site i was aware of mate, thanks.

[Asian Boss]

That is gorgeous. Except the mirror. And I'm suspicious of the side stand.

[lostboy]

That is, as has been said already, an absolutely gorgeous piece of work on a shit donor bike.

[DefTrap]

I'm finding it increasingly harder to find bikes that you lot approve of... When i do think i've found it, you hate it LOL.

I think, as a group, we're all too middle aged and a bit straight, man. Anything outside of something that looks a bit classic and we all go a bit Victorian Dad.

I was always encouraging folk on trc to go to the Bike Shed Show - it has bikes like the ones you've been putting up oozing from its gills - but one whiff of a hipster (yes, there are loads natch') and it's like you become President of the bumming hat club.

[weeksy]

I'm worried if i go there i'll feel a fraud on my pseudo hipster XSR900 pretending to be a retro.

[cheb]

I like it. So it's not got a brilliant engine, meh. I doubt very few modified bikes actually improve on the what the factory put out so most mods are just cosmetic.

At least they didn't use the original 4 spoke wheels, they were properly hideous.

[GuzziPaul]

Looks nice but 2 strokes too many and shaft drive. I reckon yo'd see that from afar at a bike meet and wait for the shreik from the exhausts when it start up. Only to be disappointed when it duff, duffs away like some old Harley.

[Horse]

Just goes to show that sports bikes can have shaft drive

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

Only to be disappointed when it duff, duffs away like some old Harley.

XZ550s aren't that bad

[Skub]

Just goes to show that sports bikes can have shaft drive

Shaft drives were an early method of preventing wheelies. Primitive traction control,if you like.