Ramstiene's posts with tag: 2006 suzuki hayabusa
|  | Making It To The Top Of The Pecking Order Sometimes Requires A Bit Of Back-Scratching, And The Psychochrome And RC Components Partnership On This 'Busa Build Created A Masterpiece.
Custom sportbike builders are finally getting the respect they deserve in the industry. In a very businesslike fashion this Hayabusa was sponsored by one of the biggest wheel companies in the motorcycle world. Every month we feature the best of the best from around the globe-some of these bikes are built by shops and some by regular guys, but every one of them involves a boatload of time, creativity and money. If you've already put some work into your own ride then you'll be painfully aware just how much dough it can cost, and this project involved a little monetary assistance for the builder so he could concentrate on his unique ideas.
Florida's PsychoChrome, owned and run by Gonzalo Polanco, has put together some pretty sick rides in the past. One particular ZX-10 he built must have been really sweet because another shop actually tried to claim credit for it. Gonzalo told us a very amusing story about how he went to a local show and found his bike featured on the stage-labeled as someone else's creation. He hunted down the "other guy who'd built it" and gave him his PsychoChrome business card-complete with a picture of the very same ZX-10. Apparently the guy's face turned a dead match for House of Kolor's "Neon Magenta."
Gonzalo took this incident in stride and used it for motivation in his next major build. He wanted to make something that really set his style apart from everything else going on in the sportbike scene, and focusing on his stylishly crafted bodywork was the clear way to do so. One of PsychoChrome's signatures has been custom gas tank fabrication, but considering there are a million custom 'Busas on the street Gonzalo needed to take it a step further.
His team created a one-off upper fairing with a truly beautiful nose section, and some of the design cues from the front of the bike flow into the rear as well. The tail section also houses custom-made LED lights and a video camera, and this LED theme continues on into the fairing sides where they're used to illuminate the RC Components logos.
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