EMPIRE OF THE FUN. Officine 08’s ‘New Dawn’ Yamaha XV750 Cafe Racer

EICMA’s November 2017 show, held in a typically chilly Milan, is the place that many big manufacturers choose to reveal their new metal. This last event saw us flooded with new bikes, including the Royal Enfield 650 Twins, the Husqvarna Svartpilen 701 and the superb new Kawasaki Z900RS. But hidden away from all the glitz, glamour and wildly inappropriate booth babes was this little gem. From Italy’s Officine 08, it’s a Yamaha Virago cafe with a unique mix of the very traditional and the very unique which definitely has our Nippon-loving radars a-pinging.

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Officine 08’s Michael d’Angiolo takes up the story. “The origin of this bike is pretty simple; a customer showed up last autumn asking for a custom bike. He didn’t even own a bike at the time, he just showed us some photos he took from the internet. They were of Viragos done in a cafe racer style. He didn’t give us precise directions, instead he just told us to give it a similar cafe racer touch.” Sounds like a dream brief, don’t it?

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EICMA's November 2017 show, held in a typically chilly Milan, is the place that many big manufacturers choose to reveal their new metal. But hidden away from all the glitz, glamour and wildly inappropriate booth babes was this little gem from Italy's Officine 08...