A little over a year ago Dave Rogers traded his built Honda CRF450 supermoto for a near-stock 1998 Buell Cyclone M2, and after a few weeks he realized how ugly the Buell was and rolled the bike into his shed, plugged in his angle grinder, and started on the “Bucatiyamazuki” mash-up build. Rogers says, “I knew there was no going back, and worst case I had ruined a really good bike,” but he hadn’t, and Rogers finished the build in March so it would be ready for the 2020 Bike Shed London show. He says, “One thing you’ll notice about the bike’s dashboard is that there are a ridiculous amount of switches on there, and any Mad Max: Fury Road fan will recognize it from Furiosa’s War Rig, where there is a series of combination kill switches, and you don’t get them in the right order, you’ll never get the bike to start. Let’s see if I can actually remember the code…”

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