Tuesday, January 5, 2010

'76 Yamaha TT500



Rekindling an old flame, Icon built the Cretin up from a '76 Yamaha TT500 that'd been languishing in the back of a shed. What was intended to be a quick and dirty supermoto quickly became something else when the Katana front end got attached to the frame with nearly vertical rake, the YZ490 swingarm went on upside down and a front caliper off a 'Busa somehow found its way onto the rear disc. Like everything else from icon it's over the top, but strangely appealing. More

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