Yamaha's 1978 single-cylinder motorbike, the SR500 was already something worth staring at. The two-seater boasted a cafe-racer aesthetic with with its elegantly straight tank and seat line, and voluptuous curves below on its slender yet sturdy chassis. What Chicago-based custom bike company Powder Monkees did it was strip the SR500 down to its essentials and fitted it with a fresh leather seat, a smaller tank, a 1970's set of headlights and mono-shock read suspensions. The rebuild was done with ...
Yamaha's 1978 single-cylinder motorbike, the SR500 was already something worth staring at. The two-seater boasted a cafe-racer aesthetic with with its elegantly straight tank and seat line, and voluptuous curves below on its slender yet sturdy chassis. What Chicago-based custom bike company Powder Monkees did it was strip the SR500 down to its essentials and fitted it with a fresh leather seat, a smaller tank, a 1970's set of headlights and mono-shock read suspensions. The rebuild was done with ...
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