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"Some of my favorite custom bikes are based on the interesting (but in my opinion, hideous) 1980s metric cruisers. There&amp;#039;s a shop near the office that builds custom bikes, and once I caught sight of a gorgeous V-twin cafe racer, but it didn&amp;#039;t look like any Ducati I&amp;#039;d ever seen. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s a Virago, actually,&amp;quot; the shop owner said. &amp;quot;They make great cafe racers.&amp;quot; He was right. It was beautiful and gorgeous, and as he told me, very fast. Apparently the secret is out. Greg Hageman&amp;#039;s shop, Doc&amp;#039;s Chops, started with a distant descendent of the Virago, the Star Bolt (which Yamaha is handing to a bunch of custom shops in a competition you can find out more about here). The Bolt isn&amp;#039;t quite the ugly duckling the Virago was. Instead, it&amp;#039;s pretty much an interpretation of the role the Sportster plays in the market, and so it&amp;#039;s begging for customization.  Greg went the scrambler route with his, and the results are fantastic. The Kenny Roberts association is a nice touch, too. It seems a bit low-slung to be a real scrambler, but how &amp;quot;real&amp;quot; a scrambler needs to be has always been subject to interpretation. What it does seem like is a perfectly rideable, stylish custom that you can stand to actually use in real life, and perhaps on a few dirt roads, too. Visit Greg&amp;#039;s site for more information, and then hop on over to see more fantastic work from photographer Erick Runyon here and here. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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