Motorcycle News - The Omen: A Yamaha MT-07 With a Custom Perimeter Frame
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It sounds crazy, but that’s how Jake Drummond conceptualized this show-stopping Yamaha MT-07, dubbed ‘The Omen.’ Jake’s only twenty-five years old, and lives in Oshkosh, Wisconsin—but his whole life has revolved around design and engineering.
“I was never a good student,” Jake tells us, “and spent most of my time drawing motorcycles, or surfing Bike EXIF for the latest custom goodness.”
“There was only one option that really caught my eye,” he says, “and that was the Yamaha MT-07. It is light and narrow enough to wrap a frame around, yet it still has plenty of power. It also had an added ‘cool factor,’ because it was the same engine that brought Yamaha back to flat track racing.”
“It was not the easiest way to prototype something,” he says, “but it turned out really cool and I enjoyed the process.”
“I decided to buy a brand new bike. It was a big commitment for me at the time as a broke college kid, but motorcycles are a disease. They will make you do stupid things whether you are riding them or not.”
Jake found a 2016-model MT-07 (previously the ‘FZ-07’ in the US), yanked out the power plant, and got cracking.
Those air ducts up front are functional; they’re covered by hand-made mesh sections, and also have Yamaha R1 headlights hiding inside them.
Jake used the Yamaha’s OEM rear shock, but modified the linkage to work with his swing arm. The front forks and triple clamps were lifted from a Yamaha R6. The bike stands rather tall now too, thanks to a set of 21F/18R Morris wheels from Roland Sands Design.
The brakes are Brembos, upgraded with braided stainless steel hoses. But that’s the end of the off-the-shelf stuff—everything else on this Yamaha was built from scratch.
Oh yes, and that glorious stainless steel exhaust system too—complete with its square, side-exiting muffler.
Every last finish was given attention—like the contrasting triangle in the front number board.
Who feels like cheering Jake over the finish line with us? Jake Drummond | Images by Zach Visser | Thanks to our good buddy, P.J. Grakauskas for the tip-off. Motorcycles via Bike EXIF http://www.bikeexif.com April 18, 2019 at 12:24PM Leave a Reply. |
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