Custom Yamaha XV950R bagger: the Lucky Cat Garage ’Space Explorer’

If you grew up in Japan in the 1950s or 1960s, you probably wanted a ‘Sonicon Rocket.’ It was a little battery-powered spaceship on wheels, made by Modern Toys, with a most unusual mechanism: if you whistled at it, the spaceship would change direction as it rolled around on the floor. Lucky Cat Garage were so taken with the toy, they’ve styled an entire bike after it, as part of the Yamaha Yard Built program—a custom bagger based on the Yamaha XV950R (known in the USA as the Bolt R-Spec). Get the build story and hi-res images at