WHO’S YOUR DADDY? The Moto Adonis ‘Elegant Bastard’ Yamaha XV Cafe Tracker
Thanks to the Netherlands, here's a Yamaha Virago XV1100 with plenty of RD50 influence.
When you’re a kid everything seems big, adults appear to be giants and a semi-trailer truck may as well be a Transformer. Even the childhood home feels like a castle until one day you return as an adult and realise it’s just a regular old three bedroom house. So too the bikes of our youth, which is why Daan Borsje, the main man at Moto Adonis, constantly increased the size and capacity of his little Yamaha RD50 to keep pace as he grew. That machine would be relevant once again when years later an old friend from the neighbourhood asked Daan to create a motorcycle to bring his childhood dream into adult sized reality. The result is a Cafe Tracker 1997 Yamaha Virago XV1100 with plenty of RD50 influence. Meet the ‘Elegant Bastard’.
From his workshop in the Dutch city of Roosendaal, Daan has become a dab hand at creating tasty customs and his Yamaha’s in particular lead the charge. Which worked out nicely as customer Luk has been riding the Japanese marques creations since he was twelve years old and decided having seen the work of Moto Adonis it was the place to take his XV. Although he wasn’t quite sure what he was signing up for as Daan explains with a laugh, “He thought I would keep his bike in original form, but he gave me his blessing after I’ve told him about my story.” The final piece to the puzzle to bring the story full circle for these lifelong Yamaha fans was that the inspiration would be drawn from Daan’s old RD50.
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