Håkan Persson’s Cocaine White Yamaha DT50MX

A custom Yamaha DT50MX cleaned up nicely by the work of Håkan Persson calling it Cocaine White since it’s fast and white. You know the saying it takes a village to raise a child, well in the course of this bike’s makeover it was a bit of this and a bit of that from here and there that came together to make the sleek finished product. The headlight was salvaged from his dad’s retired Fiat 125; the seat reconstruction started with half of a broken skateboard he had on hand that mum upholstered; got ahold of the back tire and handlebars from old friend; the petrol tank is from a ‘Crescent 1209′, and the go is from a 50cc engine with 5,5hk.  Håkan lives for these side bike projects, “At daytime I’m running a design agency called ‘Kollor Design Agency’ here in Sweden and on my spare time I build and restore Italian sports cars, mainly Alfa Romeo’s . This is my second attempt to build a bike. I’ve actually not been in contact with bikes at all before but a friend of mine kind of pushed me into trying one of his. After my first project which was a modified ‘Ciao Bravo’ I got hooked.”

Via [pipeburn] – Images courtesy of Carl Magnus