Every custom motorcycle builder has a horror story (or many) about having to fix someone else’s mistakes. Sergio Almeida is no exception. When he got his hands on this Yamaha XT600, it was a far cry from the slick street tracker you’re looking at here.
“The bike was already far from stock,” says Sergio, who operates as WKND Customs out of Porto, Portugal. “It had an upside-down fork swap, a set of supermoto wheels, and a mix of random parts, including a sportbike mudguard and a dual-headlight front fairing. It had already gone through a second engine, after blowing the first—clear signs of a rough past that showed throughout the bike.”
Sergio had two mammoth tasks in front of him. First, he had to undo the work already done.…