You get the chance to vote your favorite bike among the six custom Star Bolt beauties, and if you’re lucky, you can also win original Yamaha apparel form the Heritage line. Yamaha’s Garage Challenge is yet another custom bike building contest based on the Star Bolt, or the XV950 as the more technical of you might know it, and choosing from the current competitors looks like a really tough job.
Of course, it’s always nice to see manufacturers dishing out bikes which have been especially designed and engineered for customization. What’s even cooler is seeing these makers constantly organizing custom bike competitions and thus fueling the segment with new ideas, discovering talents which lay dormant and contributing to a bigger, more consistent custom scene.
Yamaha’s Italian branch decided to pit six of their local dealers in this Garage Challenge instead of having individual customizers show off their awesomeness, like on other occasions before. The six official dealers are Motosalone Crea, Twinsbike, New Venezia Moto, Fani Motors, Tacconi Moto and Moto Shop, each presenting their own vision on how a custom Star Bolt should like.
Words are pretty useless in trying to describe these bikes, and such an endeavor would also make this piece unnecessarily lengthy. You’d better take your time to look at each of these machines closely and pick your favorite. Then you can head over to the Yamaha Garage Challenge website and vote, helping the house of Iwata choose the three finalists which will make it to the Verona al Motor Bike Expo 2015 next weekend, where a jury will deliver the grand prize winning-bike.
It was really hard to decide which one gets our vote, but in the end the Bombhard BH1 won our hearts. Some say that the dual-headlight front is too Triumph but we’d rather go with Wall-E, which is even nicer.
Yamaha’s Italian branch decided to pit six of their local dealers in this Garage Challenge instead of having individual customizers show off their awesomeness, like on other occasions before. The six official dealers are Motosalone Crea, Twinsbike, New Venezia Moto, Fani Motors, Tacconi Moto and Moto Shop, each presenting their own vision on how a custom Star Bolt should like.
Words are pretty useless in trying to describe these bikes, and such an endeavor would also make this piece unnecessarily lengthy. You’d better take your time to look at each of these machines closely and pick your favorite. Then you can head over to the Yamaha Garage Challenge website and vote, helping the house of Iwata choose the three finalists which will make it to the Verona al Motor Bike Expo 2015 next weekend, where a jury will deliver the grand prize winning-bike.
It was really hard to decide which one gets our vote, but in the end the Bombhard BH1 won our hearts. Some say that the dual-headlight front is too Triumph but we’d rather go with Wall-E, which is even nicer.