Written by Martin Hodgson.
When Confucius said ?all good things are difficult to achieve and bad things are very easy to get,? he might not have been talking about motorcyclists, but I’m sure he’d agree Stuart’s story fits the bill. Having pieced together a very tasty Triumph Thruxton, Stuart, a Sydneysider originally from Switzerland, was minding his own business when cruising the CBD on his bike when a tourist in the harbourside city came straight through a red light and took him out. Both man and machine were in a mess and although Stuart would ride again, his number one steed had to be put down. Six weeks in a wheelchair and three months out of action to recover gave him a lot of time to think. And rather than waste drinking beer and playing Xbox, Stuart used his recovery to imagine his motorcycling resurrection, a raging BMW R nineT.
Ok, so maybe some beers were indeed drunk along the way, but having lost his custom Triumph the BMW gave him a second chance at motorcycle nirvana and not even a bad accident could put Stuart off riding again. ?I had a lot of time to think over this build, firstly I had to buy another motorcycle whilst I couldn?t walk ? the irony was too much and it had to be done!

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