Yamaha SR500 by Lossa Engineering

This is the cleanest Yamaha SR500 café racer I’ve seen for a long, long time—the Lossa Engineering ‘Solus’. It recently starred in a very enticing video, and it’s finally been captured properly in a stills shoot. The builder is Jay LaRossa of Long Beach, California and he specializes in café racers based on Japanese, Italian and British bikes from the 1960s and 1970s. Both sides of Jay’s family owned motorcycle dealerships, so he’s been steeped in two-wheeled culture since an early age. And it shows. Jay’s philosophy is incredibly simple: he follows the tradition of the original racers ‘by stripping...