Muy caliente
Modern retro bikes have led to a boom in custom and
café racer builds from shops around the world. The global trend to
chop, slam, bob and café all sorts of donor bikes may just have reached
peak awesome because this custom Triumph Thruxton 900 dubbed Stalker is a masterpiece.
The Stalker is the fiftieth build from Tamarit Motorcycles, a Triumph custom
specialist shop in Tamarit, Spain. It was built for a very tall
Mallorcan who had fallen in love with café customs during travels to
Thailand. My favorite part of this build is the sculpted airbox, which
exposes the pod-style air filter in a beautifully executed half-cut box.
The aluminum triple tree with a Motogadget Scope Pro instrument cluster
embedded seamlessly into it is another big time highlight.
Tamarit
offers a host of custom Triumph parts on its website, and used some of
those parts, some off-the-shelf parts from MotoGadget and a few one-off
fabricated parts specific to this build. For example, the number plate
hanger and grab bar with an embedded LED strip of taillights was
designed specifically for this bike. Tamarit says they prefer to add
one-off elements to motorcycles commissioned by clients to make sure
those customers get a truly unique bike.
A 2006
Thruxton 900 is the platform for the build, and Tamarit says the 70
horsepower parallel twin was chosen specifically for its old-school
carbureted feel. From there, the builders added off-the-shelf items from
their catalog, including their Pantera springs, Little Bastard fender,
Hummer sump guard, and a three-quarter size headlight. A Tamarit
Speedster exhaust adds aural intensity to the proceedings, as well as a
small bump in oomph.
Victory Classic tires are a nice
aesthetic touch, if not the best performance option. By cutting the
triple trees by 6cm (2.3 inches) and cutting down the subframe to reduce
the height of the rear springs, Tamarit was able to slam the body much
closer to the tires and make the whole bike much lower and compact. For
more on this and Tamarits other builds you can check out their website
below.
This is a gorgeous execution of a café build that might help put Tamarit firmly on the map.
