XS400 by Urban Motor

In the 1960s, VW created a famous ad for the American market, asking, “How does the snow plow driver get to work?” The answer, as you’ve probably guessed, was in a Beetle. I was reminded of that ad when I heard that Urban Motor’s Peter Dannenberg had commissioned another builder to create a bike for him. What sort of vehicle would you build for the owner of one of Europe’s top custom workshops? The answer is this very sharp-looking Yamaha XS400. Urban Motor is famed for its BMW customs, so you can see Dannenberg’s logic in contracting out a Japanese...