The stories that caught our eye this week, including Gene Romero?s Triumph racer being sold, an MV Agusta that an 18-month-old can ride, and a cut-price AC Sanctuary Z2. Plus detailed plans on how to build a 150 kph electric bike for about five large.

Sold: Gene Romero?s 1968 Triumph T120R Bikes with a history don?t come much better than this: a genuine T120R factory racer converted to a street tracker by Gene Romero, who in 1970 famously became the youngest person to win the AMA Grand National Championship.

The Triumph sold a few days ago on eBay for $26,500, which sounds like a bargain to us. It?s a street legal, matching numbers machine, and was sold by Ken Kaplan of the New England Motorcycle Museum. It was one of Ken?s most prized possessions, but the museum desperately needs a new roof ? so the bike had to go, to help raise funds.
The conversion was completed around 20 years ago, and the bike has done fewer than 500 miles since. It keeps all the flat track niceties such as a right-side exhaust system and Dunlop K180 rubber, but adds brakes, lighting and instrumentation for road use. The balanced and tuned engine has a 750cc big bore kit, and we?re told it ?sounds fantastic.?
Here?s hoping this beautiful machine will get some use in the future, and won?t be hidden away in a private collection. [Via]

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