With a head full of ideas, Ant met up with frequent collaborator Ziggy Moto to put together a render of the proposed design. The show?s production company signed off the design?but when Ant enthusiastically presented it to Tim, he was met with confusion.
?There was silence, for what seemed like an eternity, before he replied with, ‘When I said hill climber, I meant Goodwood or Prescott Hill Climbing?not racing up grassy dirt hills.’ Luckily, we both had a laugh about the British versus Canadian translation of hill climbing, and I amended the design to suit. To be fair, other than the extended swing arm and paddle tire, it pretty much stayed true to the original idea.?

Save for the Scrambler 1100’s fuel tank, most of the bike’s clothing is new. Ant fabricated a new headlight nacelle, then embedded a pair of Highsider LED projectors. Olliminium Auto Fabrication shaped the front fender, and the carbon fiber fork guards are from Sudo Cycles. The rear’s been reworked with a stubby custom subframe and tail cowl and the seat is new too?flowing neatly into the top of the tank, with upholstery by Inflex Interiors.

Torben handled the menacing black paint job?then Ant tore into it to make it look distressed out the box. (Although given the way he’s been riding it, it would have looked like this in a couple of months anyway.)
The Scrambler’s first outing was at a hill climb race at Gurston Down in the UK. It meant that the whole build had...