Ten Bolts. Ten Custom Builders. One Winner. You Decide. Such was the headline traversing around the web when Star Motorcycles gave calls to some of the top builders in the country to compete in a “customize it as you see fit” build contest based on a freshly minted, stock 2014 Yamaha Bolt.
Big OEMs continue to help grow motorcycling by realizing that the DIY movement is here to stay, and that the only way to play in the same sandbox as the rapidly growing vintage custom market is to show their support through projects like these. Triumph, Kawasaki, BMW, Moto Guzzi—they all get it. And now Yamaha America is declaring they get it, too.
The future is bright for those of us not content with what rolls off the assembly line.…