Written by Andrew Jones
It’s interesting to think that before Henry Ford left his mark on automotive manufacturing, most commercial vehicles were still made by hand. In other words, everyone owned a custom. Nowadays, factory vehicles are pretty much exact replicas of each other and customs are the exception to the rule. But what if you met in the middle" What if a custom shop started to build more than one bike at once" It’s a question that Austrian shop Titan Motorcycles has not only considered, but tried. And here’s the result; a Honda duo of dust-loving daredevils they call the ?Tracker Duet?.

Since we last spoke, Titan’s Tom and Mike had to ditch their beloved ?first official? workshop in the east of Graz and move themselves, all their two-wheeled kids and a bunch of other metal things to a new location toward the City centre. ?It’s an old factory hall; a kind of lost space,? say the boys. ?It had a lot of potential, but we had to put a lot of ideas, work, time, sweat and hard cash into it to pep it up and get it looking like a proper custom motorcycle garage.? But they got there in the end, and tell us proudly that they even have a bar with cold drinks now.
And the first bikes to emerge from the shop’s less thirsty minds" It’s the Honda SLR650 tracker twins you see right here. While we’re told that one started life as an SLR650 and another as a ?Vigor?, they are apparently exactly the same bike, bar a f...