First up, the bike you see here looks straight off the charts, something you’d read in the glossies about extremely skilled hands creating magic from bare, lifeless metal. And if you’ve heard of Virginia-based Classified Moto, you wouldn’t be wrong either. The gurus have concocted a decent number of extraordinary machines in the recent past, one being this awesome 1982 Yamaha XV920R. And the best part? We just got it over to Dubai, where it’s sitting pretty at Bikers Café!

Anyway, here’s the skinny on the build in Classified Moto’s own words:
“We took a rather well-kept 1982 XV920R and with much pain and suffering, performed not only our signature sportbike front end swap, but the rear as well — both off very late model Yamahas (YZF R6-R front and R6-S rear). Maxum Machine here in Richmond fabbed up a custom front sprocket/spacer to cope with the increased offset of the rear sprocket and wheel, now sporting a big fat 180mm tire. We stripped off many pounds of 1980′s-style funk from the nerdy looking cruiser, keeping it to a noticeably trim fighting weight.

We opted for top mounted hooligan bars over clip-ons after a lot of waffling by all parties. In the end, we can’t imagine what could be better. When you ride this thing, it feels like some kind of experimental weapon, like G.I. Joe’s personal assault bike. It’s a romping, stomping, elbows-up kind of thing. Pure fun.”