SHINING STAR

There’s a saying that projects are never completed, just abandoned. If you’ve had a project bike yourself, you’ll probably agree. Many of us who start projects, especially custom builds and race bikes, are always looking beyond the horizon and it seems we rarely get there.

Thoughts of ‘If I change this, I can also update that’ or ‘If I can lighten this, I can get an extra tenth a lap’ abound in the creative and ambitious mind, driving projects to go on and on….and on.

Having said all that, the notion of “abandoned” projects can be a little misleading, especially in the case of the bike presented here, which is most certainly finished, but the owner is one of those driven individuals who’s always looking for a little bit more!

WORLDWIDE FAVOURITE

Yamaha’s SR500 was already a classic before it became the go-to bike for literally hundreds