Garage Build: Tweaking the Honda XR600R, French style

Taking on a garage project can be daunting. First-time builders often find themselves in a downward spiral of costs, time and motivation—and vow never to pick up a wrench again. Not Dimitri Chaussinand though. He pulled off his first project—a cute Yamaha TW125—in the underground parking garage of his apartment block, on a limited budget. And when the Lyon-based architectural draughtsman sold the little TW, he already had a new build in mind … “I wanted to build another motorcycle in the same vein,” the carefree Frenchman tells us. “But with more displacement, and with a little more work put...