The bike started life as a triple numbers matching Daytona Orange R90S ands lived locally in Southern California its entire life, still adorning its original California Blue Plate, issued in 1975. The bike was abandoned at a local dealership’s service department in a state of disrepair.

We bought the bike in a package deal long with other suitable donor motorcycles, at this time it was wearing an RTT fairing finished in the Daytona Orange paint scheme. It wasn’t pretty but clearly loved by its previous custodian .

The engine and gearbox have been fully rebuilt and vapor blasted, with displacement bumped from 900cc to 1000cc, thanks to the big bore kit supplied by Siebenrock. Along with the displacement increase, we added a lightweight flywheel and TwinSpark Ignition system.  In stock form, the original engine performed at peak power of 65hp; the rebuild dyno’d at 72hp, marking a very impressive gain over the factory numbers, and significantly more than in its tired form.

Ohlins front and rear take care of the suspension. The Brembo GP4 calipers stop the front wheel, while our renewal of the original drum brake does a great job of stopping the rear. The wheels have been custom built front and rear to 17” diameter with polished Sun Rims and stainless spokes. The factory headlight bucket has been upgraded with an Adaptive LED JW Speaker light unit, supplied by Motodemic.

The paint scheme is Porsche Midnight Blue Metallic finished in a Smoke style in homage to the original finish applied to the R90S. the pinstripe is hand painted in Gold and the frame is finished in the same shade of blue.