Customized Eye Sweet: Remembering the XSR900 ‘Stardust’ by OMT Storage

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If you’d like a machine that wouldn’t look misplaced within the latest Marvel hit flick, look no additional than XSR900 constructed two years in the past by OMT Storage. 

Named merely “Stardust,” the construct is a celestial homage to nuclear racing, because of the heritage carried ahead by Gaetano, Silvana, Marco and Mario Troiano – the brains behind OMT’s enterprise. 

An XSR900 “Stardust.” Media sourced from Yamaha Motorsports.

Protection from PipeBurn tells us that the XSR900 was the very first Japanese bike the Troiano brothers ever labored on, and this specific construct had one easy request from Yamaha: To construct a customized scrambler that pushed boundaries and had a unique vibe than her predecessors.

To Marco, the bike’s purposeful magnificence was partially because of the truth that he ripped out the ABS, ATC, and the ride-by-wire electrical elements. 

“Now, it’s just for exhausting riders,” he laughs. 

An XSR900 "Stardust." Media sourced from Yamaha Motorsports.
An XSR900 “Stardust.” Media sourced from Yamaha Motorsports.

All of the customized bodywork is made out of aluminum, lovingly crafted by hand, with the next elements sporting the metallic:

  • fuel tank
  • rear fender
  • Seat
  • battery field
  • Handlebars
  • radiator
An XSR900 "Stardust." Media sourced from Yamaha Motorsports.
An XSR900 “Stardust.” Media sourced from Yamaha Motorsports.

The welcome addition of Milano-made Borrani tubeless wheels and Continental TKC 80 tyres joins a one-off, stainless-steel pipe “that apparently sounds just like the beginning grid on the MotoGP”… not that we’re complaining. 

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Alcantra leather-based was used to decorate the built-in saddle, a Brembo caliper was added when the brothers “misplaced” the manufacturing unit one, and, after a little bit of blood, sweat and tears, electronics have been all hidden to maintain the bike’s profile “small and minimal.”

An XSR900 "Stardust." Media sourced from Yamaha Motorsports.
An XSR900 “Stardust.” Media sourced from Yamaha Motorsports.

“I very very like the brand new type of the bike,” finishes Marco. 

“It’s because I really feel that it’s an ideal mixture of the traditional scrambler type blended with some new concepts for the way forward for the style.”

What do you consider the “Stardust?”

*Media sourced from Yamaha Motorsports*

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