Yamaha took the leap into the chopperesque V-twin market in 1981 with the release of the Virago XV750. […]
Category Archive: Customer Bikes
Martin Padilla, a longtime Mikes XS customer, has recently completed his restoration of this killer ’77 XS650. This […]
Up until 1978, Yamaha was the only Japanese Big Four motorcycle manufacturer that did not have a “superbike”. […]
Long-time Mikes XS customer William Ghent (aka ‘Wild Bill’) has put the finishing touches on his 1977 Yamaha […]
Beginning in 1970, Yamaha produced its first 350cc 2-stroke motorcycle: the coveted R5. It ushered in a new […]
Our last customer build of 2021 brings us to Massachusetts, where Joe Martorana embarked on his first motorcycle […]
Mikes XS customer Rhy Norton (Ozark, MO) recently finished restoring an XS1-B and wanted to share it […]
In 1978, Yamaha introduced the XS1100 model. Until that point, the largest displacement motorcycle that Yamaha had to […]
This month’s customer build brings us to the San Francisco Bay Area where Mikes XS customer Peter Brewer […]