Top 10 best Yamaha Virago Cafe Racers listed for you. Check out these beautiful looking, high-end custom cafe racers and tell us which one you like best!
They say that you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, but no one bothered telling Earth Motorcycles that. The Slovakian custom shop has just built an elegant and somewhat alluring café racer out of the most unlikely donor; a Yamaha Virago. It's not that Yamaha Virago café racers are uncommon—they're just really hard to get right. In stock trim, the Virago boasts one of the most awkward layouts in modern motorcycling. So it takes a shrewd approach, and a little left-field thinking, to massage it into shape. Earth Motorcycles circumnavigated those challenges, by choosing to highlight
As great as Virago Cafe Racers are we've seen too many carbon copy builds. This XV1100 by Voodoo Garage takes a new approach and we wholeheartedly approve.
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They say that you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, but no one bothered telling Earth Motorcycles that. The Slovakian custom shop has just built an elegant and somewhat alluring café racer out of the most unlikely donor; a Yamaha Virago. It's not that Yamaha Virago café racers are uncommon—they're just really hard to get right. In stock trim, the Virago boasts one of the most awkward layouts in modern motorcycling. So it takes a shrewd approach, and a little left-field thinking, to massage it into shape. Earth Motorcycles circumnavigated those challenges, by choosing to highlight
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Moose MotoDesign gives us an awesome twosome with the Yamaha Virago XV920 Café Fighters that co-exist in sleek style.
Top 10 best Yamaha Virago Cafe Racers listed for you. Check out these beautiful looking, high-end custom cafe racers and tell us which one you like best!
As great as Virago Cafe Racers are we've seen too many carbon copy builds. This XV1100 by Voodoo Garage takes a new approach and we wholeheartedly approve.
Moto Adonis is a curiously named workshop based out of Roosendaal in the Netherlands. They’ve cut their teeth on a
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The underrated Yamaha Virago from the 1980s is really gaining favor as a custom base. Classified Moto have already shown the way, and here’s another terrific example—this time from Greg Hageman of Hageman Cycles. It’s a 1982 Yamaha XV750, and it was built for Season Two of Discovery Channel’s Cafe Racer TV show. Hageman built a new subframe to support the lovely, wasp-like seat unit, and lowered the forks by two inches to improve the stance. There’s a Tarozzi fork brace to tighten the handling, along with Tarozzi rearsets and clip-ons for a better riding position. At the back is
Custom builder Greg Hageman of Doc’s Chops in Tampa, Fla., builds the coolest Yamaha Virago ever.
There’s nothing better than getting an open brief from a client – especially when the brief is a challenge to
After being rejected from engineering school, 23-year-old Colin Darling used the money he had saved as a Starbucks barista to make his first custom build.
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When it comes to old motorcycles in need of resurrection, owners often face a dilemma: restore to original spec, or rebuild as a custom? The temptation to perform a nuts-and-bolts resto is massive when there's a '60s model BSA or Triumph in the garage, but less so when the bike in question is a Yamaha Virago XV750. Yamaha's now-dated chopper has become pretty popular as a custom base though, with more and more decent examples popping up all the time. Leading the pack are builders like Greg Hageman—who has a talent for massaging the Virago's awkward lines into a cohesive
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The Viagro” is a spectacular custom 1982 Yamaha XV750 Virago by Spin City Industries. This bike was founder Eric Meglasson´s first attempt at building a custom motorcycle, and what a result! Inspired by other custom bike studios like Classified
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One of the most underrated custom platforms has got to be Yamaha’s Virago. It first appeared as the XV750 in 1981, and made an immediate impact—to the point where it was one of the bikes that prompted a US tariff on imported motorcycles over 700 cc, arguably to protect Milwaukee. The Virago sub-brand was soon spread thin with subsequent models going down to 250 cc, but the 80s big-bangers are still held in high regard. The custom shown here is a 1981 model, rebuilt in Haaksbergen in the Netherlands as a tribute to the Zero Engineering style. I'd be happy
One of the most underrated custom platforms has got to be Yamaha’s Virago. It first appeared as the XV750 in 1981, and made an immediate impact—to the point where it was one of the bikes that prompted a US tariff on imported motorcycles over 700 cc, arguably to protect Milwaukee. The Virago sub-brand was soon spread thin with subsequent models going down to 250 cc, but the 80s big-bangers are still held in high regard. The custom shown here is a 1981 model, rebuilt in Haaksbergen in the Netherlands as a tribute to the Zero Engineering style. I'd be happy
It seems like Greg Hageman can do no wrong at the moment. A few days ago, his retro-themed Yamaha XV1100 custom was a hit. And now his latest build, this radical XV920 Virago transformation, has just been showcased in Motorcycle Classics magazine. Hageman’s strength is an unerring eye for visual balance and stance. For this Yamaha Virago, he crafted a new rear subframe and installed a MotoLanna seat originally destined for a Yamaha SR500. The tank is a Benelli, but not just any old Benelli: it’s from a 1967 Wards Riverside Mojave, itself an interesting footnote in the annals of
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After being rejected from engineering school, 23-year-old Colin Darling used the money he had saved as a Starbucks barista to make his first custom build.
Hi all, I've recently got the bug for cafe racers and want to build my own, what is a good bike to do the project on?. I'm looking at something around a 500cc a
