While using components that are usually less expensive than the stretched swingarms and super-wide chromed billet aluminum wheels so beloved here in the USA, small UK companies like Dynomite have been building bikes for the past ten years that would look more at home in a MotoGP paddock than an Easter parade. Based on the south coast of England, Dynomite has been producing high quality conversions for highflying Jappers like R1s and ZX-9Rs, in addition to carbon fiber bodywork and other trick parts for CBRs and Gixxers. The Yamaha R1 family seems to be a Dynomite darling however, with a series of performance enhancing packages that start with a twin can underseat exhaust system and go all the way to a package that transforms the entire bike with performance parts like TMhlins suspension, PVM brakes, Gilles rearsets and magnesium race wheels alongside specially manufactured carbon fiber bodywork, underseat exhaust systems, vented alloy fuel tanks and billet aluminum triples-you get the idea.
Craig Delaney was a big fan of the Dynomite R1 conversions, but lacked the necessary cash to be able to buy something like the fully tricked out R1 he lusted after. Regular searches of classified ads on websites and in the motorcycle press for the magic word 'Dynomite' eventually turned up trumps in the shape of what had been a very special R1 custom-built for another dude by Dynomite with not only the full package spec, but also the highly desirable Metmachex single sided swingarm complete with Ducati 998 rear wheel set up.
The bike had been built for the original customer at a cost of some $50,000 back in 1999 using a brand new R1, but now that it'd been through a couple of owners it was looking a little less pristine with peeling paint on the wheels and in need of consumables like tires, chain and sprockets. But best of all, it was up for grabs at considerably less than the original purchase price.