There are bikes that look ?busy,? full of angles and ancillaries, pumped up like a bodybuilder on show day. Then there are those with a few deft lines, a little empty space here and there, as if a thumbnail sketch has been transformed into metal.
Auto Fabrica?s bikes fall into the second category. As the famed industrial designer Dieter Rams would say, they are ?less but better,? with a timeless appeal and an air of simplicity. This new build, called Type 19 and based on a classic Triumph Bonneville, follows that philosophy.

It?s a simple, classy roadster with a hint of a scrambler vibe, and was commissioned by a client in Austin, Texas?almost five thousand miles away from the English workshop.
?This is the second bike that he has bought from us,? says co-founder Bujar Muharremi, who runs the company with his brother Gazmend. ?The other one was the Type 4B. He fell in love with the simplicity of that SR250, and wanted to create something special on a slightly bigger platform.?
After a little back and forth, going over a few different donor options, they settled on the oil-in-frame Triumph Bonneville. A 1972 T120 650 donor was located.
To create something special means building as many new parts as possible, so Bujar and Gaz have designed and installed a new tank, seat, and exhaust system?plus smaller details such as fork covers and lighting.

?The idea was to give this scrambler the same level of fit and finish as our Type 6 and Type 16, with the pipes a close match ...