On the edge of Sturgis
Right now I’m heading toward Montana, but we took a day off from driving around Mount Rushmore… The day before the Sturgis rally starts. In a nutshell, this means that the local towns are already full of Harley riders (and other bikes). Lucky for me, there are quite a few sales tents that are up here just for the traffic – I picked up a new pair of leather chaps (My past dinks have involved rashing my knees.) And have been plotting the restoration of my 1980 Yamaha XS 850 – a unique bike for the three cylinders it sports. Check out this 750 cafe racer conversion, it’s just gorgeous.
This is a 750 conversion built by a German fellow named Hernrik. I’m interested in the exhaust routing, the black mags and the silver tank. I’ve been leaning towards a silver tank on mine, but I really like the way this bike looks. Mine will stay a cruiser, but I’ll probably replace the bars with some better geometry and the stock exhaust really bugs me for some reason…