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 ...

Up top, there’s a plain cafe racer-style tail fronted by an Alcantara saddle. The XS650 gas tank received a flush-mounted, pop-up aluminum filler cap to keep its silhouette as clean as possible.

What do you get when you pit custom bike shop Motocrew against a 1979 Yammie XS650? A dark horse fit for James Bond ... the decision was to build a classic cafe racer.” “After building more modern ...

This vintage Yamaha XS650, built by the folks at Brooklyn’s Jane Motorcycle, is exemplary of what a café racer should be. The unfinished metal tank, the wrapped exhaust, and the flat, tan saddle — ...