“That snapshot says it all. I’m 5 years old, stretching to reach the handlebars, with my feet barely touching the pegs on my dad’s 1981 Yamaha XS650 Special. My dad always had bikes in the ...

What you see here today is one of his later projects, which started with a Yamaha XS650 from the model-year 1983. The old Yammie was turned into a jaw-dropping cafe racer with as many as 250 man ...

For this remarkable custom creature, Rocket Motorcycle’s Yutaka Hoshi drew inspiration from the almighty Kenny Roberts and his championship-winning machines – Yamaha's fearsome XS650 and the ...