Yamaha XS650 flat tracker

Drogo Michie wanted a bike for the streets of London, and chose a stock 1978 Yamaha XS650 as his starting point. “There’s no reinventing the wheel here, nor a huge amount of bespoke fabrication,” he says. “My three lovely children's habit of eating most of my money ensured that!” He took the bike to the Redmax Speed Shop, and got a chopped and rebuilt rear end, a Champion seat, a Trackmaster tank and an inverted Sparto rear light—plus a fork brace, powder coating, and Koni rear shocks. The lovely pipes are from Co-built, and have removable baffles. “My left thigh...