MAKING WAVES: Yamaha XSR900 ‘Yard Built for Good’.

'Do what you love, help along the way'. It's not just a great ideal by which to live one's life, but also serves as the motto for the global humanitarian charity, Waves for Water. The group has dedicated itself to providing clean drinking water to those most in need and responding to natural disasters that compromise that vital elixir of life. Now for the second time, David Chang, founder of the immensely popular CROIG (Café Racers of Instagram) has pooled some incredible talent to create an amazing motorcycle. The idea is simple, build a killer custom creation and give it away to a Waves for Water donor. For this build, Yamaha has gotten heavily involved with their Yard Built program and given the project the name ‘Yard Built for Good’. The result is this beautiful Yamaha XSR900, inspired by the iconic Tech21 Yamaha FZR750 that King Kenny Roberts rode in the 1985 Suzuka 8 Hours, and destined to deliver water to the world. One of the many amazing initiatives run by Waves for Water is their courier program, which supports travellers who roam the far corners of the earth, to deliver life-saving water filtration systems to communities in need. Just this program alone has seen vital water filters delivered in more than 90 countries, and it was while completing this incredible work that CROIG's David Chang was first inspired to make an even bigger difference. Back in 2019 after his travels to South East Asia, David decided to organise the build of a custom HD Sportster 48, with amazing input from the custom community coming from the likes of Sosa Metalworks, J Shia from Madhouse Motors, Jay Donovan, Joe Mielke, Andrew Blaschko, and Kristen Lassen