RENDEZ-VOUS DEUX. Bad Winner?s Yamaha TW125 Street Tracker
Written by Andrew Jones
Whether you prefer two wheels or four, pretty much every petrolhead will know of Claude Lelouch’s infamous 1976 short film, ?Rendezvous?. Done in one take and purportedly showing a Ferrari 275GTB (or should that be a Mercedes-Benz") racing through early morning Paris, its look and feel has influenced everything from Mad Max to Ghost Rider. For most who’ve seen it, the spirit of rebelliousness and the unbridled internal combustion glory it captures is the stuff of dreams. Dreams that French shop Bad Winners have channelled into this lightweight Parisian cobble-stone king in the shape of a Yamaha TW125 street tracker.
But before you start with your ?it’s only 125ccs!? chorus, let us remember that treating an urban landscape like your own personal amusement park isn’t all about horsepower. Hell, skateboarders, bicycle couriers and those parkour nuts prove that on a daily basis. It’s also helpful to remember that the Japanese were attacking Tokyo with fat-tyred TWs years before they started making SRs into cafe racers. Must. Not. Make. ?In Seine?. Joke
And while the Bad Winner’s last few Pipeburn features have been all about smaller capacity customs, chief baddie Walid says that there’s some real horsepower in the shop as we speak, including a new Ducati Scrambler 1100, a new Ducati Supersport and even a 2017 Triumph Bonneville T120. But more about them later.
Looks très amusant
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