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 later, you can buy showroom machines that’ll run rings around most Tritons. And for a fraction of what it would cost to build one.

So we were surprised to learn that the owner of this beautifully crafted, English-built Triton has a well-stocked garage of modern bikes. It currently houses a Honda RC30 and RC45, a Ducati Panigale R and Desmosedici RR, and a Triumph T120?all of which see regular use.
Even so, he just had to have a Triton. So he reached out to Tom Simpson and Alex Chesson of Foundry Motorcycle, based near the small cathedral city of Chichester, West Sussex.
?Our customer David came in brandishing a printout of the Bike EXIF feature on Loaded Gun’s Triton from a few years back,? explains Alex, ?which we discussed (favorably) at length.?
?He?d always wanted a Triton, but didn?t really like the ?traditional? bikes. So we worked out how to make one that looked a little more modern, whilst retaining the classic essence of the bike. It had to be less ?cobbled together? than so many of the traditional machines, and hold its head up in the company of the rest of his collection.?

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