Written by Marlon Slack
Switzerland?s Young Guns Speed Shop don?t discriminate. They specialise in restoring and modifying vintage motorcycles and have managed to tackle just about every marque from A to Z. From AJS to Zündapp, the work they?ve done is incredible and often with a healthy, dirt-based bias. This time around they?ve restored, modified and added their own magic an incredible 1971 Triumph Trackmaster they?ve dubbed ?Lucy?.

Before you get all confused, some clarification on the ?Trackmaster? line from Triumph. In an effort to compete in AMA racing in the late 60?s the Triumph factory approached fabricator Ray Hensley to make some bespoke, lightened frames with revised geometry to handle better on the dirt. A limited number of these homologated rolled off the line, followed by a number of other models. The Trackmaster is often considered one of the most desirable of the frames from this period. Probably our favourite tracker of 2018
But isn?t even the first Triumph Trackmaster Young Guns have in their collection. ?My other Trackmaster is from the movie On Any Sunday,? Young Gun?s Nic Heer explains. ?It?s the same style but a different finish as our latest one. But my green Trackmaster is beaten up and gets raced often. So my plan was to build an authentic race bike, showing how it would hit the track in 1971 if someone was to have put all their effort in it?.

The race-spec Trackmaster frame has a huge following among the ?left, left again? crowd throughout the...