Street Cred: Suicide Machine’s stripped-down Street 750

There are some builders who seem to have the Midas touch: everything they create turns to gold. Aaron and Shaun Guardado are in that exclusive group, crafting beautiful racers and customs when they’re not tearing up dirt tracks—or running the Suicide Machine Company business out of Long Beach, California. After Harley released the XG platform, the brothers were inspired to pay homage to the road-racing lineage of the famous XR750TT—and also showcase the XG750’s performance potential. “We set out to turn the tame, street-cruising XG750 into an aggressive, lightweight hard cornering racing machine,” says Aaron. “It’d be a no nonsense,...