Bike Garage - Big Bad Wolf

El Solitario’s Big Bad Wolf breaks novel Blue Planet inward an impressive collab with Yamaha

Last Summer Yamaha teamed upwardly amongst El Solitario to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the XJR1300, an iconic street machine. The number is an awe-awekening creation, a race inspired rails monster that to a greater extent than than lives upwardly to its name, ‘Big Bad Wolf’. The bike broke comprehend for the offset fourth dimension at the Glemseck 101 demonstrate inward Deutschland inward September, taking to the 1/8 mile race rails to convey an halt to the reign of the defending champions Lucky Cat Garage.

“We are actually stoked amongst the collaboration amongst El Solitario,” commented Yamaha Product Manager Shun Miyazawa. We wanted to challenge them amongst the Yard Built projection to demonstrate a dissimilar side to El Solitario together with force them to run across what they were capable of. The number is impressive! With no cutting or welding to the frame of the XJR they conduct maintain proved that the bike continues to endure an fantabulous base of operations for customization, no affair what direction yous conduct to cook in. The score of particular is fantastic, together with nosotros are proud of the collaboration, showing non simply a novel expression upwardly for the XJR but too novel Blue Planet for El Solitario.”

El Solitario agreed, “We are non familiar amongst iv cylinder bikes thence at offset nosotros couldn’t sympathize the challenge. For months nosotros tried to answer the same question: How could nosotros accept it further? Ground Zero would endure to enquire the right question. Asking what scared us the most, seemed logic, together with the answer was performance together with technology! Both were unknown together with expensive paths for us. Suddenly aversion turned into curiosity together with nosotros had our challenge. We are motorbike poets non engineers, thence countless hours of research, together with the dearest of our friends, made it possible to abide by the best partners inward the globe of fast bikes, together with amongst their help, nosotros developed 1 of the gnarliest musculus bikes e'er to endure seen inward recent years.”

Key to the success of the projection was the collaboration amongst Mauro Abbadini, from Classic Co. equally technical manager of the build, he brought amongst him the confidence together with know how of a veteran racer together with winner of many battles. Last but non to the lowest degree an regular army of racing manufacture experts, all bully to collaborate amongst El Solitario.

The halt result, the ‘Big Bad Wolf’ AKA: BBW, has virtually everything custom made amongst the exception of the frame, the tank, the handlebars together with the raise light, reducing the moisture weight to simply 183kg.

The Motor was blueprinted together with the heads were ported together with flowed. The intake port catamenia was increased past times 50%. Compression was raised from 9.7-1 (Stock) to 10.7-1. The combustion chambers were reshaped & the squish areas increased. The rods were reinforced amongst titanium bolts together with the crankshaft was rebalanced. All the electronics together with were removed together with nation of the fine art Lectron 42 Carburetors were added, developed specifically for the BBW past times Lectron Fuel Systems on their catamenia bench to endure plug & play on delivery. H5N1 Dynatek Programmable Ignition was installed. The operate takes the ability upwardly to 148 BHP at the raise wheel.

Classic Co. together with then fabricated, next our designs, a carbon fibre tail section, motor air rams together with the belly pan, equally good equally all the aluminum brackets for the needed modifications. Great Britain based Dymag developed the carbon fibre wheels specially to tally non simply BBW but too the stock XJR1300. Acke Rising from ISR inward Sweden did a lot of machining using the El Solitario designs to brand custom triple trees, disc rotors together with the incredible raise brake caliper bracket. ISR manus controls were added along amongst ISR front end half dozen piston calipers together with raise iv pistons caliper.

K-Tech Suspension collaborated amongst Novatech to prepare the impressive front end forks together with the raise shocks. The screaming custom titanium exhaust was made past times Asahina Racing inward Japan, designed to tally non simply the BBW but the stock XJR1300 also. Moto GP crude oil cooler supplier, Taleo Racing inward Madrid created the custom semi circular crude oil cooler together with EMD inward France, machined inward aluminum the image motor covers which volition endure available to purchase from El Solitario for the stock XJR1300 inward the foundry version.

H5N1 TWM custom gas cap sets off the tank together with a stunning custom aluminum swing arm past times Over Racing inward Nippon finishes the raise along amongst a prepare of their rearsets. The BBW was wired using the Motogadget M-Unit & uses the M-Lock for on/off. Corona supplied the super cool quick shifter together with PIAA supplied the intense headlights.

The BBW stays stuck to the tarmac amongst Michelin street, slick together with pelting tyres to maximize the fun whatever the conditions. Last but past times no agency to the lowest degree the beautiful custom graphics together with pigment was the operate of London creative individual Death Spray Custom.

Very special thank yous to: Mauro Abbadini, Ivan Ferreiro, Alberto Garcia-Alix, David Gwyther, Tadashi Kono, Seb Lorentz, Vincent Prat, JMKL, Gavin Matheson,  Shun Miyazawa & all the sponsors that made this run a hazard possible. You rule!