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Yamaha XSR900 Custom “XR9 Carbona” by Bottpower

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The Yamaha MT-09 isn’t considered one of the more beautiful motorcycles on the market, but thankfully the three-cylinder street bike is offered in a more palpable café racer version, the Yamaha XSR900.

This is where we begin today’s story too, thanks to Yamaha’s Yard Built program, which encourages tuners and designers to take their hands to these affordable machines, and restyle them into something new and beautiful.

With that, we see the work of David Sánchez from Bottpower with his XR9 Carbona build, which will also be available as a body kit for those who are looking to spice up the looks of the Yamaha XSR900 sitting in their garage.

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More Renders of the Bottpower BOTT XC1 Café Racer

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Forget the Honda CB350 or the old BMW R-Series machines, this is a proper modern café racer. We have brought you the work of Bottpower before, and have even already shown you renders of the BOTT XC1, but the firm has made another twist on its Buell-powered café.

Adding a half-fairing to the front, and reworking the fuel tank and tail into a more modern shapes, this variant of the BOTT XC1 draws from both newer and older thoughts for inspiration. And if your tastes vary day-to-day, Version 3, as it’s being called, can still be easily turned into the BOTT XR1 street track machine, as most of the changes are only skin deep.

Since Bottpower makes bikes to each customer’s personal spec and taste, we imagine we could see all three variants, and more, roaming the streets…or even hitting the track. Looking good fellas!

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Bottpower BOTT 1000 Morlaco – When Engineers Dream

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It is always interesting to see what motorcycle engineers work on in their spare time. Sometimes its motorcycle related, and sometimes their inspiration goes down a completely different path. Luckily for us, in the case of Bottpower’s David Sánchez, the Spanish engineer’s very limited free time stayed within the two-wheeled realm.

A project spanning 11 years, Sánchez started his design with a Honda CBR954RR engine as the centerpiece, and built from there. Employing a Hossack-style trellis for the front-end, and a matching steal trellis chassis (in orange, naturally), Sánchez has picked up the nearly complete project once again, after recently finishing the BOTT XR1 project, and has some renders to show for the final design.

Going from fully faired sport bike to naked street bike, the BOTT 1000 Morlaco has that same outside-of-the-box feel that you get when looking at the work of Italian house Vyrus. Using Bottpower’s CR2 electronics package that Gabor Talmacsi will race with in World Superbike this season, the Morlaco isn’t just a pretty face, there’s a brain up there too…and Sánchez highlights it with a prominent mounting point at the airbox cover.

Sans fairings, covers, or really any bodywork to speak of, you could say that the BOTT 1000 Morlaco is process in function over form, but then agin, the pictures tell a different story. Check them out after the jump, and follow the build on Bottpower’s website.

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