Background

After Diamond Atelier’s launch into the custom motorcycle world, the duo received worldwide recognition for their work, especially on their outside-the-norm BMW builds. The two Boxer Airheads settled the urban signature style of the young Munich brand and also created a new niche in the over saturated custom scene. Part of this scene was the current trend of transforming road bikes into so-called “Scramblers”. Tom and Pablo quickly grew tired of seeing the same models over and over again and thus decided to do to complete opposite – to transform a typical 90’s dirt bike into a full-blown Diamond Atelier café racer.

Theme

The focus on this build was to show the creativity, dedication and skill that is poured into every DA project. Therefore a Suzuki DR650 was the perfect donor – it was the bike furthest away from what the two founders consider good looking. But with its high capacity single hammer engine, it had great potential. Diamond Atelier feared no effort to redesign the complete chassis of the DR650 in order to receive the desired stance. This includes a heavily modified main frame and completely hand-built rear frame, as well as a full custom suspension set up and a rare set of racing wheels. To add to the agile and perfectly sleek silhouette the bike needs to cut through downtown city traffic, a front mask and seat cowling were hand built to match the vintage 70’s gas tank. Low slung clip-ons and CNC machined rear sets came from ABM and provide an aggressive seating position for the driver. The DA#5 remains Diamond Atelier’s most advanced custom bike project to this day and is meant to show that the bar on such transformations still can be raised.

General:
- Make/Model: Suzuki DR 650 SP44B
- Capacity: 650ccm
- Engine power: 50HP
- Original mileage: 30.000 km / 18.645 miles
- Mileage after rebuild: 10 km / 6.2 miles

Chassis:
- Heavily modified main frame with scratch-built rear frame
- Newly build up 41mm telescopic fork with new internals and CNC machined upper triple clamps
- Re-spoked 17 inch racing rims on DR650 hubs
- Metzeler Racetec RR racing slicks
- Custom-made Wilbers rear shock
- ABM Multiclip clip-ons
- ABM Syntho levers
- ABM grips
- Customized ABM rear sets

Bodywork:
- Vintage 70’s gastank
- Hand built front mask (1mm sheet metal)
- Hand built seat cowling (1mm sheet metal)
- Genuine cowhide seat

Performance:
- Newly built up and re-sealed engine
- Re-jetted carbs
- K&N air filter
- Scratch-built header
- Supertrapp sport muffler
- Castrol oils
- 320mm wave front brake disc
- 200mm wave rear brake disc
- ABM stainless steel brake hoses
- Customized Yamaha YZR-1 clutch control
- Customized Suzuki GSX-R brake pump
- Entire paintjob done by hand in-house

Electronics:
- Completely new wiring with eliminated battery (kick-start only)
- Kellermann R3 flasher unit
- Motogadget bar end indicators
- Motogadget rear indicators
- Motogadget speedo