In a world where everyone is screaming for attention, Heinz Lange is an enigma. He has no catchy workshop name, no website and absolutely zero social media presence. He’s simply a retired aficionado with a proclivity for collecting and working on classics?like the Norton Manx that’s parked in his living room.
That?s why we only found out about Heinz via a friend of a friend. And he only popped up on their radar because he’d just finished this stunning Triumph Trackmaster.

Heinz built the Triumph pretty much from scratch, at his home garage in Sprendlingen, a small winegrowing town in western Germany. His goal was to build as original a Trackmaster Triumph as possible, stripped down to just the essentials?but street legal. ?The first time I saw Trackmaster-framed Triumph motorcycles,? he tells us, ?was when I was at Daytona for the AHRMA classic series. The way those guys charged their Trackmaster twins into the corners was awesome.?

?Those bikes had a specific style?not just the paint jobs and the shape of the dirt track seats and tanks, but the complete bikes fascinated me. All of them had only what was needed to ride them.?
?Years later, at a bike meeting in California, I saw a bunch of street legal Trackmasters. So I decided to build one for myself too. It had to be a Trackmaster frame, nickel-plated, short wheel base.?

Remarkably, the only second hand part Heinz started with was the motor. It’s from a 1971 Triumph T120R, picked up at a fl...