We’re going from the sublime to the ridiculous this week, kicking off with a stunning Triton from Italy. We’ve also got a new XR1 from Bottpower, a $60,000 electric bike from the company formerly known as Confederate, and a long-lost Vyrus … all 50cc of it.
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Few custom motorcycles have the cachet of the legendary Triton. The mash-up of a Norton featherbed frame and Triumph twin motor has become a demigod icon of the café racer movement. As we all know, back in the 60s the idea was to combine the best chassis with the best motor. But half a century…
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Brad Monk is a racer. Sure, he has a day job, but come Sunday, he’s a racer—and this is his race bike. Trying to figure out what it is? We can help: it’s a ‘Yamando’; part Yamaha XS650, part Norton Commando. Or, as Brad puts it, “the best of both worlds.”
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Most builds we feature start out as a ‘donor bike.’ This Triton cafe racer started out as an idea—turned into reality by a builder with the chops to execute it. Wheelies Motorcycles is a workshop, restaurant and retail space nestled in an industrial area of Victoria, British Columbia. Joel Harrison is the guy turning wrenches—handling…
Read more »There’s a theme to our latest selection: customs with fairings. From Madrid to the south of France to Japan, here’s the sexy…
Read more »The term ‘café racer’ has become so abused, it’s lost virtually all meaning. (Okay, we’re occasionally guilty too.) So let’s go back…
Read more »The idea was simple: take the best engine and the best frame of the time, and combine them. In the 60s, that…
Read more »Think of a Triton, and you probably imagine a sleek, silver-and-black special from the 1960s. A product of its time, infused with…
Read more »We get quite a few Tritons sent in to Bike EXIF—maybe one every couple of weeks. I’m a big fan of the…
Read more »This lovely Triton is the latest from Loaded Gun Customs, the Delaware-based shop run by Kevin Dunworth. The story begins with a…
Read more »There seem to be endless permutations of the classic Triton motorcycle. But I haven’t seen this mix of old and new before:…
Read more »The lure of the salt at Bonneville Speedweek is strong, and two years ago, the bug bit Vincent Prat of the French…
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