Written by Andrew Jones
For a young guy, Sweden?s Adam Nestor is an old hand at this whole Pipeburn feature bike thing. His 2010 ?Madame Guzzi? board tracker was probably the first custom bike we featured that really opened our eyes to just what was possible in this new wave of custom culture. Brilliantly innovative on many different levels, that one bike has meant that we still hold the guy in very high regard all these years later. And as if to prove to us that he clearly hasn’t lost any of his prowess, he’s just dropped this remarkable new build in our laps. Here’s his Norton Commando cafe he built for Swedish toolmaker Verktygsboden he calls ?Project VNR?.

?I live in Bollebygd, Sweden, which is on the West Coast,? says Adam in opening. ?Since I was 19, I have built a lot of bikes, café racers, scramblers, choppers, board trackers and even some cars. About a year ago, I started working for a Swedish Tool company called ?Verktygsboden?. And very soon afterwards, I started this project; we call it ?Project Verktygsboden Norton Racer?, or ?VNR? for short.?
Adam’s goal was simple, he wanted to build a classic looking cafe racer with properly upgraded suspension and brakes. ?I picked a Norton because I personally feel that no other brand fits better within the cafe racer category. But the real special part of this build was that I decided to do it in-store in front of our customers. So every Friday between 2 and 5pm, I worked on the project with ...