If you live in the UK and you want a fast street tracker or a well-sorted flat track racer, you call Steve Hillary of Redmax Speed Shop. He?s got a reputation that most builders would kill for?and he builds a mean café racer too.
Steve is an old-school bike nut who spends more time working on his bikes than his website or Facebook page. And it?s not often we get the chance to examine one of his builds closely. But this very fast Triumph street scrambler has made the wait worthwhile.

If you went to the Bike Shed show a few weeks ago, you?ll have seen this monster in the metal. Steve built it for a client who already has a Redmax bike in his garage, and wanted a ?hard as nails? road bike with an electric start.
?We built Andy my favorite-ever tracker about five years back,? Steve recalls. ?It had a Triumph T120 motor in one of our monoshock tracker frames, a serpent-like set of high pipes, and was painted in green with copper accents.?
?Everyone was happy?until Andy’s bad leg stopped him kick-starting it!? So Steve suggested building a new bike, using one of Redmax?s new Hinckley Bonneville tracker frames in the shop, designed for electric start engines.
It?s a very light frame, tipping the scales at just 16 kg (36 lbs.) including the swingarm. So Andy agreed, specifying only that the bike would need to work on the motorway and on the trails around his Hampshire home

Steve and chief fabricator Glenn Moger got down to work in their Devon headquarters. They slo...