Triumph Salt Lake Racer
Dutch Winner of the Triumph Street Twin Competition,
built by Triumph Groningen
Triumph Groningen (in the North of The Netherlands)
built this stunning interpretation of a Salt Lake Racer, based on the new
Triumph Street Twin.
Leonard and Rinaldo sat together and got their
inspiration from the pre-sixties café racers and Salt Lake Racers. “A modern machine with hand crafted parts,
reflecting the old racers,” Leonard explains, and Rinaldo says, “The bike had
to look like it has ran a dozen times on the Lake, so we matched the paint, and
that’s why the fairing looks slightly damaged around the edges.”
Owner of Triumph Groningen, Leonard, built this bike
with help and design of metalworker Rinaldo, who hand crafted all the sheet
metal. “For over ten years, Rinaldo and I planned on a project we could build
together. The Triumph Street Twin Competition proved to be the perfect
opportunity.” Rinaldo made the fairing and tail end, hand crafted out of 1 mil
metal. “On the way back after we had our First meeting, I already designed the Parts.
We looked at the old belly tank racers, Leonard wanted something similar, but
smaller and lower. I made the ground plate for the seat and than strated
rolling the metal plates into the fairing you see on the images!”
“Working closely
together, mutual respect. A true example of how a project can be build when there’s
a good deliberation with all the people involved. It’s a Triumph Groningen
project, but we couldn’t had it built without everybody’s help and good ideas,”
Leonard says.
Details to notice are not only the fairing and seat,
but also the riders position, the off-center head light, the detachable license
plate (the bike is ‘road legal’) and the horn and starter button, ‘hidden’ in
the bar ends. But also the team did to keep the project within the budsget that
was set, like ‘wiringh’ the grips, using the oem headers, using a tail light
that’s from a car and hidden behind the glass Triumph logo in the back seat
hump, cutting levers to make them look
more racey, the foot pegs and special made front wheel.
The creativety, hand crafed parts, technical
innovations and the overall design made this bike winner of the Dutch dealer
built competition, in two weeks time, Dutch and Begian winners both will be
judged at the MOTORbeurs in Utrecht, The Netherland’s biggest Motorcycle Fair,
where the overall winner will be announced.
Tech Sheet Triumph Street Twin 900cc
GENERAL
Owner: Triumph Motorcycles Groningen
Builder: Triumph Motorcycles Groningen and Rinaldo Wiegman
TECH
Exhaust: oem Triumph Street Twin
Transmission: Triumph Motorcycles Groningen
Frame, oil tank front end, swing arm, brakes: oem Triumph Street Twin
Front Wheel: Triumph Tiger 800 hub, rim and spokes by Simon Poelma
Fuel Tank: oem Triumph accessory, Thruxton tank
Handle bars: aftermarket clip-ons
Head light: PIAA
Rear light: Opel Vectra LED
Seat: wooden base by Niezen Interieurbouw) and leather upholstery by
Dijkema meubelstofferders
Foot pegs: oem Triumph on passengers mounting, oem Triumph brake pedal,
Thruxton shifter
PAINT
Colour: Black Chrome
Painter: A&M design en schadeherstel
Special Paint / logo’s: A&M design en schadeherstel in co-operation
with Graphic Lines
Idea: Leonard Wagenmakers / Roger Koers / Rinaldo Wiegman
Design:Roger Koers
THANKS
Triumph Motorcycles
Groningen (Harrie and Michel) Wiegman Plaatwerk and Restauratie (Rinaldo
Wiegman), A&M Design and schadeherstel (Roger Koers/Eric Westerhof),
Graphic Lines (Klaas Wagenmakers), Ispa Plastics (Richard Oraile), Niezen Interieurbouw (Mark Niezen), Dijkema
meubelstoffeerders (Jan, Ricardo Dijkema), Poelma Wielenspecialist (Simon
Poelma), Andre Visser, Freek Feddema, Marcel Wagenmakers, Kevin Verbeek,Eric
Bolwijn and of course Ria Wagenmakers and Sandra Niezen!
INFO
Triumph Motorcycles
Groningen - The Netherlands
Oeverkruid 6, 9738
AK, Groningen
Phone +3150-5779199 E-mail