I liked the flow of his dreads and the helmet and the Yamaha R1 - so I decided to do a cartoon of it. I wanted to exaggerate the actions of the rider and bike. But after sketching everything out, I realized that the graphics on the bike he was on was a bit boring - so I looked around for something a bit catchier. I looked up some shots of ex-Yamaha rider Noriyuki Haga's old R1. Thought this would've been a bit more cooler.
So here's the final piece:

Here's the few steps, from sketch to final to get to the finished drawing:

Step 2) Cleaned up line work
Step 3) Color flats
Step 4) Adding on logos and coloring in helmet
Step 5) Adding on shadows
Step 6) Adding on highlights