More Yokohama customs - Dragster style

A couple of smaller cc dragster style bikes - the small tanks look good, and it's great to see a bit of 'coffin tank' style creeping in as well -

"Stupid Crown" Honda C92

A neat Honda C92 restoration in a street scrambler style from the folk at the wonderfully named Japanese custom shop STUPID CROWN. See more here: http://www.stupidcrown.com/

Yokohama Japan Custom Show, Honda & Yamaha small cc

Love these images from the Yokohama Hot Rod & Custom Show, care of Tokyo Scooter Stuff's flickr site.

Roberto Totti Honda Custom Hand Built 250-4

Powered by a 1995 Honda 250RR, frame & bodywork all built by hand, and apparently based on the old RC181 Vintage Racer (hence the disc brakes?). The 19K logo on the side is because the motor revs to 19000rpm and puts out 56bhp!! Perhaps the disc brakes weren't such a good idea after all.......Roberto is an enthusiastic customiser & designer, and you can see more at http://www.tottimori.com/

Special thanks to http://Ottonero.blogspot.com for this and hours of timewasting goodness :-)

Tiki art of Sam Gambino

Kawasaki - Step up to Precision Power

More great Kawasaki ads from the 70's

Honda SS50 Racer

Even grey cats can be 'boy racers' (man, is this where i'm heading ? guess it could be worse....beats riding Hardleys to the cafe & back).

Big thanks to the wonderful http://chalopy.blogspot.com

check 'em out.

Suzuki AS50, another late 60's gem

The Suzuki A series ran from the mid 60's to 1969, and came in 50cc & 90cc (and the sexy 'Stinger' T series 125cc). Grab 'em while they're cheap.................

Honda SS50 & CL50 scrambler

The SS 50 & CL 50 blurred the lines between moped and motorbike, and in 1971 were the last of the "T" shape pressed steel frames (along with the Suzuki AS50 - A90 and the larger capacity Kawasaki G1 & G2's)

Steve McQueen's pit bike, Kawasaki G31M

This is the bike Steve McQueen zipped around the movie set of LeMans on. Aparrently Von Dutch was told to 'get rid of the green tank' and came up with this quirkly number. Recently restored & sold in the U.S. for about $50'000-. Here are a couple of originals:

Yamaha 225cc Scorpio

The Yamaha Scorpio is a neat, if underpowered commuter that is cheap to buy and run. Not setting the world on fire, but a few have waved the custom stick and come up with some

interesting ideas. Here's the original (there are options available) :

To dream......the impossible dream........

From this...........(another ebay special)............
To this ! (a recoloured image of Jonathan Wood's neat resto, see earlier post).
Sure thing - shouldn't take too many years, or cost too much, heh.

Can you guess what this is?

This is a barn find (ebay) I picked up a month back for $30.00. After many people on the Kawasaki Riders Forum helping, it has finally been identified !

I could have sworn it was a Kawasaki J1M or G1M (wishful thinking)It is a Daytona (Taiwan)125 Road bike imported into Australia and sold by car racer Bob Jane in 1972. Engine is Kawa c2 120 copy. (thanks ZED900, MURN & Facthunt for the detective work).
Think I'll do some 'practice' restoration on it, Let the kids have a ride, then stick it back on eBay.

Holey Moley (or, can I borrow your drill press?)

thanks to NICE! motocycle for the bottom two.

maybe I do want an open hace helmet after all...

The Steve McQueen replica issue. I won't tell you where to get it, as it is stupidly priced. But I love it. ( you can find out more on the wonderful http://www.pipeburn.com/ website)