The fastest-selling Triumph motorcycle in history has been in showrooms for around a year now. But we haven?t seen many custom jobs, because the Bonneville Bobber does everything very well?except carry passengers, for which we have the new Speedmaster.
But if you?ve got a Bobber and have an itch to modify it, let Modification Motorcycles of Paris be your guide. Raphael, Florian and Morgan have spent five months subtly tweaking a Triumph Bobber to give it an extra performance edge?and a not-so-subtle dash of style.

Working with their client, Modification Motorcycles decided to take a ?factory custom? approach: what would Triumph themselves do if they were to build a one-off suitable for daily use" It turned out to be a rather more complex process than les gars originally anticipated. The first job was to remove the tall and narrow front wheel. ?We replaced the entire front end with a Thruxton R setup: the forks, 17-inch wheel, fender and clip-ons.?

It was not a plug-and-play operation to make the high-performance front end fit the Bobber frame: a new set of triple tees was CNC machined up, with inserts to accommodate a Motogadget Motoscope mini speedo and idiot lights. It?s a functional yet minimalist dashboard.
The original headlight bowl remains, but it?s now filled with an LED lamp. The handlebars were a little harder to finish: they needed to keep the ride-by-wire cabling and module essential for the traction control, drive modes and on-board computer functio...