Euan Ryan of Shoogly Shed Motors says, “If you’re trying to give a bike that ‘show finish,’ then everything has to be perfect, as if it were a production model, and as perfect as I’d like this build to be it was never going to be, so I embraced that and I tried to make it feel like a bike that you would have to knock up in some kind of post-apocalyptic world.” A Valentine’s Day gift from his wife, this 1980 Yamaha XS250 came to Ryan in bad health, because its previous owner had left it outside for six years. It was too rotted for a restoration, but Ryan figured he could salvage the bike as a full custom. “Built entirely during the COVID-19 Lockdown in the U.K., this Street Scrambler was a challenge like none I’d taken up before,” Ryan says.

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