Triumph’s new Thruxton is about to hit the showrooms, but the outgoing model has still got plenty left in the tank. Especially when it’s been reworked by a master metalworker?like Onehandmade of Taiwan.
Meet ?Super Ten,? a 2014 Thruxton 900 wheeled into the Taipei workshop with a vague brief from the client: ?Build me a tracker.?

Onehandmade?known as Chun to his friends?didn’t need much more encouragement. He?s transformed this Thruxton with an intoxicating mix of hand-shaped metalwork and carefully selected off-the-shelf parts.

The bulk of the project involved getting the bodywork just right. From the headlight assembly to the tank and tail section, Chun has shaped everything in aluminum with a critical eye.

?I didn’t want it to be a ?normal? flat tracker,? he says. ?I needed the gas tank to be perfect?so I built it three times.? Since the 2014-model Thruxton 900 is fuel injected, the fuel pump had to be accommodated inside the tank. The result is even more impressive when you consider that Chun only has one good hand: A bike accident left him with limited use of his right hand, hence his choice of nickname.

The lines of this Thruxton are spot on, and Chun has sorted the stance out too. There’s a set of Öhlins shocks out back, and the wheels have been upgraded to a pair of forged billet aluminum ?Flurry? wheels from Arlen Ness.
The hubs are custom, and the tires are flat-track specific Maxxis DTR1s.

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