The 21st century motorcycle is a complex beast, crammed with electronics and trick engineering in the name of one-upmanship and regulatory approval.
But there?s something strangely compelling in the simplicity of an older bike from less complicated times. And they don?t come more stripped down than this 1972 T120 from Pitstop Motor Werk.

Pitstop is a team of three led by an Indonesian builder called Agung. They?re based in the hot and humid province of Central Java, and like most Indonesian builders they have to be incredibly resourceful and thrifty. Yet this does not seem to affect the quality of their work.
It helps that Agung has been wrenching on bikes for 20 years now. ?I used to get called up by friends to repair their bikes,? he tells us. ?Then Pitstop went public about seven years ago. We do engine rebuilds, custom work and restorations.?
This Bonneville is actually a T120R, one of the lesser-known Meriden models. It was an export version of the base bike, and branded as the ?Bonneville Speedmaster? by dealers in the USA.
It?s not an especially well-documented model, but the fuel tank was smaller and the bars had a slightly higher bend.

The tubular twin cradle frame also carried the oil, and the 649cc parallel twin pumped out a rorty 50 hp at 6,700 rpm, via classic Amal carburetion. It was enough to comfortably exceed ?the ton.?
Triumph motorcycles are very thin on the ground in Indonesia, like most other European and American bike brands. So Agung had li...