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FULLER MOTO YAMAHA TURBO MAXIMUS You know you’ve got your work cut out when the starting point for your project is an XJ900 Maxim – a hateful, mid-’80s factory custom. But that didn’t put Derek Kimes, of Georgia-based specials shop Fuller Moto, off from creating this stripped back, turbocharged beaut. The motor runs ’08 GSX-R600 throttle bodies and a Borg Warner S1BG turbo. The claim is 200bhp. The bike went through myriad dry builds before Derek settled on a now heavily modified Airtech fairing. If ever the phrase ‘making a silk purse from the sow’s ear’ applied, it is surely here. WALT SIEGL LEGGARO 900 Sweet, ain’t it? New Hampshire-based Walt Siegel Motorcycles (WSM) handbuild the Leggaro to customer spec around an in-house made 4130 chrome moly frame weighing just…

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Practical Sportsbikes (Digital) - 1 Issue, May 2018

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