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Details Yamaha GTS1000 Custom | Project Rhodium Omega Yamaha GTS1000 limited edition

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Channel: MOTO INTRODUCTION · 2018 · Autos & Vehicles

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Project Rhodium Omega celebrates the weird wonders of the Yamaha GTS1000
The single-sided rear swingarms on the Project Rhodium Omega look tasty, while the single-sided front ones look absolutely crazy

This funky custom motorcycle is built on the crazy foundation of Yamaha's 1993 GTS1000, with its hub-steered front wheel on a single-sided swingarm. The GTS was a beefy, overweight tourer, but JSK Moto has transformed it into a svelte roadster with a crouching robot puma stance.

Yamaha's GTS1000 was a blockbuster curiosity in its day, that being the early 1990s, when Snow's word-salad Informer was the biggest hit on the radio, the Fresh Prince of Bel Air was just starting to pick up steam, and there was only one other hub-steered motorcycle on the market: the reliably unreliable Bimota Tesi.

Yamaha's decision to release a bike so radically different from the rest of its lineup spoke a lot about the audacity of hope and believing in your dreams, or something like that. It was a move at the same level of lunacy as this year's Niken three-wheeler, being such a slap in the face to motorcycling convention that it seemed doomed to failure.

But like the Niken's three-wheel tilt platform, the GTS1000's hub-center suspension and steering system offered some truly compelling advantages: no fork dive on the brakes or shock squat on the gas; consistent geometry at all stages of the corner for consistent steering and bump handling performance; and vastly reduced flexion and stiction issues.

The fact that it floundered and failed in the market was likely as much to do with its beefy weight, uninspiring performance and sky-high price tag as it was with consumers being wary of a new technology. But flounder and fail it did, and despite a few other efforts to upturn the apple cart, telescopic forks still rule the roost more than 20 years later.

But the GTS and its terribly named RADD (Rationally Advanced Design Development) single-sided front swingarm left a big impact on businessman James Chen, who engaged California's JSK Moto to build the unique custom we present today.

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