Led by unconventional visionaries, ICON Motosports crafts motorcycle gear that blurs the lines between audacious and purposeful, while maintaining a casual indifference to conventional opinions. They also occasionally find time to build custom motorcycles—and when they do, the machines they create mirror the bold ethos of their gear.
Meet ‘Gixxer Johnny,’ a “plastic-covered, over-built, and under-thunk” Suzuki GSX-R 7/11 that “puts the ‘ele’ in both ‘gance’ and ‘phant.’” At least, that’s how ICON’s design director, Kurt Walter, describes it.
“Gixxer Johnny is an answer to a question that was never asked,” he adds. “We acquired her third-hand from a repo yard in NE Portland as part of a Jamaican catch and release program. Documentation indicates she is a 1993-era Suzuki GSX-R750 frame with a GSX-R1100 motor—referred to by us analogs as a ‘7/11’.”…