Sick motorcycle drifting, brah

“What happens when you combine a Graves WORKS Project / 2012 Yamaha R1 / purpose-built stunt bike, a three-time XDL stunt champion, fast cars, hot girls, elite helicopter tours, an awesome race track and film the entire event through Tyler Kirk Films? Pure and sic drift insanity and the most advanced drift bike ever built,” reads the official blurb. To that we’d add phrases like “Tight, yo...

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Feb 28, 2012 at 12:57pm ET

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“What happens when you combine a Graves WORKS Project / 2012 Yamaha R1 / purpose-built stunt bike, a three-time XDL stunt champion, fast cars, hot girls, elite helicopter tours, an awesome race track and film the entire event through Tyler Kirk Films? Pure and sic drift insanity and the most advanced drift bike ever built,” reads the official blurb. To that we’d add phrases like “Tight, yo!” and “Sick, brah!” and “Bro, ho! Think of this as The 661’s answer to Ernie and Nick.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY2yHyR4snk

Despite the crimes against taste and fashion evidenced in this video, the bike's actually pretty neat. When it's not pounding cans of Monster Energy and crashing jet skis, Graves Motorsports fields Josh Hayes on an R1 and Josh Herrin on an R6 in AMA something something racing. And it's brought that racing know how to building the bike you see here.

"The bike is the epitome of badass," says Bill Dixon, the rider in this video. It's essentially a superbike-spec racer complete with built motor, suspension and whatnot that's had its TC settings altered to allow huge amounts of sideways drift, in relative safety. The Dunlop Road Smart tires, far less grippy than race counterparts, help there too. The less grip a tire has, the easier it is to maintain a slide on.

For those that like lists, here's the complete specs:

2012 Yamaha R1

Graves Motorsports Superbike Engine

Graves Motorsports WORKS Suspension

Graves Motorsports WORKS Suspension Link

Graves Motorsports Low Mount Full Exhaust System

Graves Motorsports Modified R1 / R6 Tail Section

Yamaha YEC Kit ECU

Dunlop Road Smart Tires

Dynojet PC5, Secondary Fuel Module, Quick Shifter, Auto Tuner

Custom Fuel Cell

Hand Fabricated Carbon Tank Bodywork Cover