The Triumph Bobber is one of our favorite modern classics?but it could do with having some of its fat trimmed. Sam Wheeler at Motone shows us how, while a garage builder sticks a Triumph Thunderbird motor into a Sprint chassis to build a wild street tracker. On the news front, we look at the 2024 Harley-Davidson CVO Pan America and the new Ducati Desmo450 MX motocrosser.

Triumph Bobber by Motone What would you do if you had unprecedented access to some of the best aftermarket Triumph parts on the market, and your daily runner was a bone-stock Triumph Bobber" Yeah, we thought so.
Sam Wheeler is the proprietor of the UK-based parts company Motone. He picked the Triumph Bobber up a few years ago, when it first came out, as a development platform for new parts. ?I liked it so much that it became my daily for a few years, while only partly being used for development,? he tells us.
Before long, the gaudy factory bits became too much for Sam to deal with. So he got to work changing things up?picking parts from the existing Motone catalog while designing new ones for the bike.
The rear light cluster was replaced with a set of Motone ‘Icon’ three-in-one taillights, fitted to a new steel rear guard. The lights were developed specifically for this bike; the tooling alone cost a fortune, according to Sam. The company’s ‘Cutlass’ chain guard was bolted on too, along with a side-mounted number plate bracket.

The seat is another new part from Mot...