Bonnefication

Triumph had their TFest event running nationwide this Saturday and The Bonnie Breakfast Club, organised by chum James of Past Tracks had arranged a little get-together.The monthly gathering of local modern classics and retro customs was to ride up to the local Triumph dealer and take look at the new bikes, with James hoping to get a test ride on a…

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As you can imagine, not every custom or modified Triumph Twin makes it onto the pages of Bonnefication. Often, this is down to me not having the time. Like many of you I work full time, I modify, maintain ride my own Triumph Twins and have a house that needs a bit of work  – but life…

I wasn’t a big fan of computer generated motorcycles until recently, I say this not because I didn’t like the designs of these virtual machine, my issue lied  in that these CGI bikes would  never, or on some occasions, could ever be built – a bloody shame, as often these concepts are some of the most exciting and…

In November of last year Bonnefication reported that Steve McQueen’s 1963 Triumph Bonneville ‘Desert Sled‘ which was built for McQueen by Bud Ekins and painted  by Kenny Howard (Von Dutch) was coming up for sale on the 7th Jan 2016. Unfortunately I didn’t manage to win the lottery over the Christmas period, so I didn’t get to travel to the Bally’s…

The word ‘Tracker‘ is often thrown around, much in the same way as the word ‘Hipster’, with many clearly not knowing what either a Tracker or a Hipster is, or indeed what either should look like. Unlike Triumph, I don’t care what a Hipster is, or what it means to be, or not to be one.What I do care about…

Opportunities to buy early original Triumph desert sleds are rare, even more so when it’s one of a handful of Triumph’s once owned and raced by the legendary Steve McQueen. This particular 1963 Triumph Bonneville ‘Desert Sled‘ was built for McQueen by Bud Ekins and painted simply, with no florishes by Kenny Howard, who is better known as Von Dutch.It’s the pairing…

Exciting times are ahead with Triumph jumping on the beardy banned-waggon and producing 470 bolt-on accessories – accessories which will allow owners (including myself) of the new water cooled Twins to build their own versions of custom bikes like those built by Jose and Tito of Macco Motors before they even leave the Triumph showroom  – plagiarism, after all is…

It’s really nice to see a well accomplished ‘Shed‘ build and this 2005 Triumph Bonneville which was built by Senior Art Director Justin Rentzel is a real beauty! – Justin works at Tattoo Projects in Charlotte, North Carolina, a company who’s founder and CEO is Rudy Banny  who under the name of Tattoo Moto builds of some seriously cool machines. Seeing first hand Rudy’s passion for motorcycles it…

This week marked a big change for the Triumph Twin, with the release of five completely new models which include the Street Twin, Bonneville T120, T120 Black and finally the Thruxton & Thruxton R. Five machines which will take the Triumph Twin into the 2030’s and instantly turing the last of the fully air cooled…

Bonnefication hasn’t featured a build from Sébastien Guillemot and Mathieu Ménard of the Poitiers France based workshop FCR Original since November of last year, then we featured their brightly colour Bobber. This build like that, proves you don’t always have to cut and shorten the frame of your Hinckley Twin to make it look bad ass.Ditching or modifying…

‘FAT’, is the first word that came to mind when I first saw Shaun at Down & Outs new ride, a build which I received the odd updates on when it was being put together at the Down & Out workshop in Barnsley, which is just north of Sheffield UK. Like some of the other well established builders of Triumph…

Here is another great looking dealer build by Javier Alvarez and team of Cadiz based COOLmotorcycles – who are proving that the cast wheel Bonneville is just as ‘COOL’ as its spoked wheeled brethren. The bike has been cut in all the right places, work which was carried out in-house by Raul “Metalman” Toledo, who also made the seat base, which was then…

Bonnefication was recently sent the rather attractive Cafe Racer style seat named the ‘Classy‘ – a seat which is available from Thailand based Omega Racer. On the Omega Racer website it says….  “Looking as good on a motorcycle as next to a pair of hand-made Italian shoes, this Triumph custom seat by Ride and Pride would make any bike…

Macco Motors continue their success of building super cool Triumph Twins with their latest build ‘The Pilgrim’ which is based on a 2010 Triumph Bonneville T100.As I have explained in previous articles, Macco Motors Triumph Twins are variations on a theme, with each build being slightly different to last, and yet still being unmistakably a Macco Motors creation.Which is exactly what Jarlath from Belfast in Ireland wanted when he…

From the Turkish builder Bunker Customs comes this rather pretty 2014 Bonneville T100 Based Cafe Racer, but unlike some customs Triumph Twins this Twins beauty is not just skin deep. Under that blue and gold livery resides a 81bhp motor, up from the standard 68bhp. Some may feel boosting the humble Triumph Twins performance is perhaps akin to turbo charging a…

In June of last year Bonnefication ran an exclusive revealing the story behind the Triumph Bonneville T100 riden in David Beckham’s hit BBC documentary Into the Unknown. Three bikes which were built by Triumph UK especially for the documentary, though did you know David in fact rode all three T100’s? – Recently David has been filmed astride two more Triumph Twins which co-star…