The screaming custom titanium exhaust was made for us by Asahina Racing in Japan. K-Tech Suspension collaborated with Novatech to develop the impressive front forks and the rear shocks. ISR hand controls were added along with ISR front 6 piston calipers and rear 4 pistons caliper. Acke Rising from ISR in Sweden did a lot of machining using the El Solitario designs to make custom triple trees, disc rotors and the incredible rear brake caliper bracket. UK based Dymag specially developed the carbon fibre wheels for BBW. We fabricated a carbon fibre tail section, motor air rams and the belly pan, as well as all the aluminum brackets for the needed modifications. The works takes the power up to 148 BHP at the rear wheel. A Dynatek Programmable Ignition was installed. All the electronics were removed and a state of the art Lectron 42 Carburetors were added, developed specifically for the BBW by Lectron Fuel Systems on their flow bench to be plug & play on delivery. The rods were reinforced with titanium bolts and the crankshaft was rebalanced. The combustion chambers were reshaped & the squish areas increased. Compression was raised from 9.7-1 (Stock) to 10.7-1. The intake port flow was increased by 50%. The Motor was blueprinted and the heads were ported and flowed. The end result, the ‘Big Bad Wolf’ AKA: BBW, has almost everything custom made with the exception of the frame, the tank, the handlebars and the rear light, reducing the wet weight to just 183kg. Last but not least an army of racing industry experts, all keen to collaborate with El Solitario. Key to the success of the project was the collaboration with Mauro Abbadini, from Classic Co. as technical director of the build, he brought with him the confidence and know how of a veteran racer and winner of many battles. We are motorcycle poets not engineers, so countless hours of research, and the love of our friends, made it possible to find the best partners in the world of fast bikes, and with their help, we developed one of the gnarliest muscle bikes ever to be seen in recent years.” Suddenly aversion turned into curiosity and we had our challenge. Asking what scared us the most, seemed logic, and the answer was performance and technology! Both were unknown and expensive paths for us. For months we tried to answer the same question: How could we take it further? Ground Zero would be to ask the correct question. The level of detail and performance is fantastic, and we are proud of the collaboration, showing not just a new face for the XJR but also new ground for El Solitario.”Įl Solitario agreed, “We are not familiar with 4 cylinder bikes, so at first we couldn’t understand the challenge. ![]() The result is impressive! With no cutting or welding to the frame of the XJR they have proved that the bike continues to be an excellent base for customization, no matter what direction you choose to build in. We wanted to challenge them with the Yard Built project to show a different side to El Solitario and push them to see what they were capable of. “We are really stoked with the collaboration with El Solitario,” commented Yamaha Product Manager Shun Miyazawa. The bike broke cover for the first time at the Glemseck 101 races in Germany last September, winning at the 1/8 mile race track bringing to an end the reign of the defending champions the Lucky Cat Garage. The result is an awe-awekening creation, a race inspired, track monster that more than lives up to its name, ‘Big Bad Wolf’. Last Summer Yamaha teamed up with El Solitario to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the XJR1300, an iconic street machine.
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