HEART STOPPER. Republica Motocicletas? ?Bypass? Honda XR 250
Written by Marlon Slack
The team at Republica Motocicletas don’t struggle to find business. The Argentinian workshop has belted out over 30 motorcycles in their short time on the scene and they can?t keep up with the amount of orders coming in. Why" Well, it?s because they create rides like this, a killer 2013 Honda Tornado 250 dubbed the ?Bypass?.Â
Republica is a prime example of one of the best things that can happen when mates get together. Initially founded by childhood friends Carlos Sartor and Franco Loson, the shop has since expanded to take in a whole coterie of like-minded buddies, including Mauro Sartor and Lucas Versellone. And they?ve been steadily pushing out projects since.
Initially, the Bypass wasn?t even intended for a customer. ?We bought this motorcycle for our own workshop,? Franco Loson says. ?But when we started the design process a customer from Jujuy (a northern province of Argentina) appeared and repeatedly insisted on buying it from us, a situation to which we finally agreed?.
So all eyes turned to the Tornado. You?d be hard pressed to tell from the way it looks now, but in factory trim it?s an air and oil-cooled single cylinder trail bike that?s built tougher than a black box recorder. It?s the perfect little runabout for patchy South American roads. But the little trail bike looks? well, like a trail bike. Republica had big plans. And it wasn?t for a throwback scrambler build.
?We wanted to aim for a futuristic design,? Franco sa...
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