Before Brice Hennebert started building race-inspired machines as Workhorse Speed Shop, he ran another workshop with a friend, called Kruz Company. The two Belgian builders split amicably a while ago, but there was one notable casualty in the divorce: this Triumph Speed Triple.
Brice and his former partner Olivier first took on the Speed Triple 1050 seven years ago. They set out to build it with a monocoque carbon fiber body, but that’s as far as they got. And when they went their separate ways, Olivier got a full time job and Brice got busy on new projects as Workhorse.

The Speed Triple was boxed and almost forgotten. Then, last summer, the original client called up Brice, and asked him if he had time to slot in the build. Luckily, Brice had a gap in his schedule?so he dusted off the 2009-spec Triumph and got back into it. Despite being shaped seven years ago, the design of the Triumph’s custom bodywork hasn’t dated. And that’s a good thing, because it took a considerable effort to produce it in the first place. ?It was such a challenge,? says Brice.

?I shaped a half bike from pieces of insulation foam, then we decided to 3D scan the shape. At this time, 3D scans were quite prehistoric?super massive, and super tricky. So that was an epic adventure, and eventually didn’t work.?
?Finally it was my friend Christophe from Formae Design who created a CAD model from the foam block. After this first endless step, we asked another guy to build t...