El Solitario 'Winning Loser'

It’s stating the obvious, but some bikes are easier to customize than others. If you’ve got a Ducati SportClassic or Harley Sportster sitting in your garage, you’ve got a head start. But what about the real bread-and-butter bikes, the unloved small-capacity Japanese machines with gawky aesthetics, sold by the million to inner-city commuters the world over? Yamaha’s SR250 is one such machine, and a staple of the slick Japanese 'Brat Style' custom scene. But you don’t often see it customized in the west, and certainly not to the radical extent we’re looking at here. This is the ‘Winning Loser,’ the...