Sean Skinner is the Jekyll and Hyde of custom motorcycles. Sometimes he builds tidy restomods that show restraint, and other times he builds idiosyncratic machines that put his imagination on full display. This sublime Yamaha RD350 street tracker sits somewhere in the middle.
Sean runs MotoRelic as a one-man band, out of a small garage behind his house in Hamilton, Virginia, USA. This project was commissioned by a customer who had picked up a 1973 Yamaha RD350 for $350 (a proper barn find) and wanted it turned into a street tracker.
“Normally, getting a bike for $1 per cc is a great deal,” says Sean. “But when he sent the photos, I felt like he overpaid. It was the crustiest, most forgotten bike I’d ever seen.”…