Indy Mile: Gasolina’s custom SR400 Tracker
In Melbourne, Australia—on the Yarra River’s shorefront—you’ll find an outfit called Gasolina. It’s an unusual but very appealing business: a restaurant-cum-motorcycle design…
Read more »Yamaha’s SR400 is a madly popular platform, especially in the café racer, scrambler, and tracker departments. No bike represents the minimalist, lightweight aesthetic so well as the SR400, no matter what style is applied to it.
First put out in 1978, this air-cooled single-cylinder earned the nickname ‘thumper’ thanks to its distinctive sound. Dead simple mechanically and structurally, this gem can be left dirty, polished up, or stripped to its bones and left to shine under any light. Old ones are getting tougher to find, but don’t worry: Yamaha restarted factory production of the SR400 in 2015, and you can now find a brand new one at a dealer near you.
In Melbourne, Australia—on the Yarra River’s shorefront—you’ll find an outfit called Gasolina. It’s an unusual but very appealing business: a restaurant-cum-motorcycle design…
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Read more »The Yamaha SR400 has been selling strongly in Japan for over three decades now, so the locals are well versed in making…
Read more »The big news for the European custom scene right now is the official return of the Yamaha SR400. The icon of the…
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Read more »The Kuwana City shop is getting more and more attention lately, and if they keep building customs like this Yamaha SR400, that’s…
Read more »The up-and-coming Big Moon custom motorcycle shop is based in the city of Okayama (which is also home to Kōraku-en, one of…
Read more »We’ve always had a soft spot for the Yamaha SR400: thirty years old and still going strong. So we love this origami…
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