Throttle Roll 2013

Just for the 1 sec shot of a Hinckley Triumph

Throttle Roll 2013 from Australian Cafe Racers on Vimeo.

Analog Motorcycles '07 Triumph Thruxton via The Bike Shed

Link to bike shed

Mean Machines The Red Baron

Build spec:
One off rear rim with 180 size tire
Custom shocks, short brake/clutch levers
CNC top bridge
Clipons
Rearset foot pegs
Custom fiberglass tail section and front fender
Bates headlight
Posh indicators
Mini speedo
Custom exhaust system
Revised/redesigned wiring harness
K&N filters, dyno tuned and calibrated carbs

BSMC Event London

Popped up to London to pay the Bike Shed Event a visit at the weekend. This free, well organised event too place in the back streets of Shorditch at the Shoreditch Studios. Ive not been to Shoreditch since I as a nipper in the seventies, back then I was in the safe hands of my 6' 6" father. Things have changed a lot since then and Shoreditch is much safer and trendier. 

Walking in through the gates that led to Bike Shed Event I could imagine it being the perfect Bikers Cafe, where groups of bikers could meet up, grab a burger and look at some really fine motorcycles. In fact it was so good, some, myself included might of mistaken it for bikers heaven.  

If like me, you had gone to the Event and on arrival removed your Bell/Davida helmet (delete where appropriate) you might of thought (i didn't) 'I need a haircut', well you were in luck, because not only could you look at motorcycles, while eating a healthy burger, you could of also had your barnet cut by Billy & Bo  the 'internationally acclaimed team' of barbers. If that wasn't enough you could honour the Event, and the excellent organisational skill of the The Bike Shed team, by having their fine logo tattoo'd by Woody somewhere on your person. 

Inside the Shoreditch studio Sam Christmas' display of excellent motorcycle photography framed a studio full of beautiful custom bike, none of which looked like it came out of BSH magazine, which in itself was very refreshing. 

During the day there was a constant flow of visitors riding up outside making the event spill out onto the road and out into the highstreet filling Shoreditch with the sound of motorcycles, some were reminded to keep the noise down as they too had the obligatory neighbours. 

All in, a great Event, Im really looking forward to The Bike Sheds next Event

It's that fella off the TV

Meanwhile, back at Mule....

Richard Pollock at Mule has been busy, just what we here like to see here at Bonnefication, custom Twins

Triumph Coronation

Created by Mattia Foroni for Triumph Tridays
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BONNE FOR SALE

Up for sale on eBay is Daels Bonne which was featured on this blog as well as BikeExif, Bike Magazine and MCN - This is a good chance to get your hands on a very unique Co-Built built Bonne that will be the envy of all you ride with and all those you ride past.

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Custom Built Triumph Bonneville Street Tracker (as featured in Bike Magazine/ MCN in 2013)
I'm reluctantly selling my completely custom modern Triumph Bonneville Street Tracker. 
I've included most of the spec below, but essentially this bike started out as a 2003 Triumph T100 with hardly any miles on the clock. I've spent thousands upon thousands to create a modern day street tracker - a bike similar to those I'd seen on the Deus Ex Machina website from Australia. Lighter, more powerful, more minimal design. 
Long story short - the air box has been removed, the carbs have been re-jetted and fitted with DNA air filters - giving the bike the punch it deserves, especially when it's shed so much weight. It's got custom alloy yokes, a long list of German built LSL parts, lots of custom alloy parts made in the UK by Co-Built, Bitubo race suspension from Italy.The wheels were custom built for me by The Devon Rim company at great expense - wide alloy rims, alloy Talon hubs, stainless spokes & nipples, sealed to run tubeless tyres (more details below).
Lots of beautiful parts were built by Oxfordshire master builders Co-Built - including the the custom made 2 into 1 exhaust - stainless steel with an F1 grade inconel silencer. The bike has been a dream project - obviously spent it's life garaged and has embarrassingly only covered 3500 dry miles (sorry). It's time for someone to ride it. It's taxed and MOT'd. 
In addition - I'd like to point out that this is still a practical bike, it's still got a comfortable seat to carry a pillion, decent lights and I've kept a tank that you can tour with. Lots of custom Triumphs seem to have seats for a single people and a tank that will be empty after a few laps round a car park - which is fine - but I wanted to make the bike special without sacrificing it's ride-ability. 

Custom Triumph Street Tracker Spec List [main points]
- Black anodised Morad rims with black alloy Talon hubs/ Stanless spokes and nipples, sealed rims - rear rim is 5.5" wide 17" rim, the front is a 3.5" wide 18" rim.- New tubeless Pirelli Angel ST tyres (covered 100 miles) - rear tyre 170/60 (17"), front tyre 120/70 (18")- Bitubo Front Fork Cartridge Kit (Cr-Si alloy steel springs, ergal top cap, with preload spring adjustment/ Hydraulic unit, sealed nitrogen pressurised cartridge)- Bitubo WME Rear Shocks 340mm Black Spring (nitrogen pressurised, high resistance steel alloy, both upper and lower attachments CNC billet aluminium alloy)- Co-Built Custom Made 2 into 1 stainless steel headers with an inconel silencer (with removable baffle)- Co-Built Billet alloy triple trees (widened the forks, so had custom spindle/ spacers made)- Co-Built custom made black billet handlebar clamp  - Co-Built custom made seat - with black aniline leather cover (under the seat theres a custom bracket that houses the lightweight Shorai LFX14A2-BS12 lithium battery)- Co-Built Carbon fibre Carb Support Bracket (and various other custom brackets)- DNA Large Air filters/ plus crank case breather - Polished alloy Triumph rocker covers- LSL Brake & Clutch Levers - gunmetal grey - adjustable red buttons/ plus black LSL bar ends.- LSL Chrome 1" Flat track bars- LSL Black alloy adjustable mirrors - Front Yamaha R6 Caliper with an EBC floating disc- The tank has been de-badged professionally and sprayed gunmetal grey and features removable Co-Built vinyl stickers- Monza alloy 1960s style gas tank cap - Black anodised Bates 5.5" headlight with 55W internals- Motogadget 'Tiny' Speedo http://motogadget.com/en/- Braided brake and throttle cables from Norman Hyde- MAS Engineering Fender Eliminator (customised by Co-Built)- Custom short allow front mudguard with hand-made alloy bracket)- Oberon Black Alloy LED indicators (front and rear)- Oberon Black Alloy Touring Pillion Foot pegs - NGK Spark plug racing cables and caps- Joker Machine billet polished sprocket cover - Joker Machine black alloy Ignition Re-locator
Feel free to ask sensible questions, but please - NO timewasters. NO tyre kickers. NO silly offers.