Yamaha prides itself on a concept it calls "Jin-Ki Kanno," which it describes for those who don't speak Japanese as being "the seductive exhilaration felt when they truly become one with their machine." Cue the Spice Girls up here, if you like.
And yet, in all the wildest dreams of all of Yamaha's many talented engineers over the years, I sincerely doubt that any of them possibly could have had a build this insane in their minds when they crafted the YZF-R6.
Customs, sure. They're a given in motorcycle world, and there's never really any accounting for what a person with an unrelenting obsession can do, particularly if they also have (or can scrounge up) a bunch of money to back it up. If they've also got engineering and/or mechanical skills? You are in for A TIME.
Friends, let me introduce you to the Super Farthing.
You're looking at the latest creation from a YouTuber who calls himself Gregulations, and it's a true masterpiece of British overengineering. The ginormous front wheel, he says, weighs around 165 kilograms on its own. That's nearly 364 pounds if you're playing along at home, or nearly as much as Yamaha's claimed dry weight (that's without fluids) of an entire R6.
