Many vintage motorcycles that get restored often end up as showpieces?ridden seldom, if at all, for fear that something might break. But if you had a bonafide classic Triumph Trackmaster in your garage, could you really leave it parked" Gareth Howes says ?no.?
He’s the owner of this 1970 Triumph Trackmaster, and believes bikes should be ?ridden, not hidden.? So this fully restored race bike gets regular thrashings from the most stylish man in flat track racing: Dimitri Coste.

Gareth got hooked on flat track racing via the UK’s Dirt Quake events. He’s a sucker for classic race bikes and their history, so he eventually set up a company, Double Six, to source and import rare flat track parts from the USA. Which is how he stumbled across the donor bike for this project. ?I purchased the Triumph from a bike auction in America, while at a race track in England being egged on by my mates,? he tells us. ?Once it had arrived, I really fell in love with the bike. After speaking to a few racers from the late 60s and early 70s, I was able to work out that it was made for, and owned by, an ex-Trackmaster employee, Gene Hartline.?

Gene passed away unexpectedly four years ago, but left a legacy behind as a highly successful Hollywood stuntman. With the Triumph’s steering neck still bearing his name, Gareth knew the bike had to be brought back to life?and raced.
So he roped in his good friend and ex-DTRA vintage class champ, Rick Bearcroft, and got to wor...