Known for his classy café racers, Dustin Kott threw the rule book away to build a Triumph Daytona bobber for Born Free. Other highlights this week include a razor-sharp BMW K1100, a retro-fabulous Suzuki GSX-R1100, and the 2025 Triumph Speed Twin 900.

Triumph Daytona 500 by Kott Motorcycles Dustin Kott is no stranger to these pages, with a long list of satisfied clients aboard his custom café racers. But when he received an invite to exhibit a bike at the 15th running of the Born Free show, he decided to build something a little different from his usual fare.
After building a Triumph 500 café racer a while back, Dustin had some ideas churning around in his head. Using another air-cooled Triumph Daytona twin from 1969, Dustin settled on a hard-tailed, board-track-inspired bobber to showcase his long list of skills.
The rear end of the 69 frame was hacked off, with a hardtail from Factory Metal Works welded on in its place. The girder front end is completely handmade, with the top and bottom sections of the system being designed in CAD and water jet-cut from steel. There are four pivot points in front of the steering stem, creating an ingenious parallelogram system that uses a shock absorber from a mountain bike.

The fantastical adjustable clip-on bars are works of art and are integrated into the girder fork. The aluminum tank and seat were made from scratch and are based on Kott?s signature café racer style, but shrunk down to bobber-friendly proportions. The oil...