As soon as a particular motorcycle becomes popular among customizers, it becomes harder and harder to find clean examples of it. The Yamaha SR500 has been a darling of the custom scene since forever, and has been customized in every way imaginable. You’ve got a better chance of finding one that’s had heinous work done to it, than a minty stock one.
This shimmering Yamaha SR500 flat tracker was a “half-rate bobber thing” when Chad Daly first got his hands on it. So his first job was to undo some of the previous custom work, to make room for a far more tasteful set of mods.
Chad lives in Idaho, wrenching on bikes in his spare time under the moniker DGRS (Down Grade Race Systems).…