The right kind of hybrid: A genre-bending Triumph Bobber - motorcycles

The right kind of hybrid: A genre-bending Triumph Bobber



There?s an increasing trend of genre-hopping happening in the custom scene at the moment. Ten years ago, you?d occasionally see Sportsters turned into dirt bikes, or roadsters into scramblers. Nowadays, anything is fair game?like this Triumph Bobber with a strong café racer flavor.
It comes from Grzegorz Korczak of Poland, who has a reputation for unusual builds: in recent months, his Wroclaw-based workshop Unikat Motorworks has revealed a radical Yamaha TMAX scooter and a ten-speed Honda CB900C.

?When Triumph launched the Bobber in 2016, I immediately printed out a side view,? says Grzegorz, ?and sketched out a floating/hanging cafe seat and long exhaust pipes.?
?It was a ?love at first sight? situation. And ever since, I?ve waited for a client to order such a project, but nobody was able to imagine it. So I asked Triumph Poland for a deal on a Bobber. Our job is to build our clients’ dreams, but we’ve got to build our own as well, from time to time.?
When the Triumph Bobber arrived in his workshop, Grzegorz anticpated an ?easy and fast build.? But that soon proved to be a tad optimistic, especially since he wasn?t prepared to compromise his vision or choose half-assed solutions.
Even something as simple as changing the wheel sizes caused problems: ?It’s not that easy with modern bikes, as every model has changes in the hub designs, number of spokes, offsets and more. Finally, some friends in Italy made the wheels for us?with 18-inch rims, as retro...
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