Imaginary Garage - 2010 Triumph Bonneville

Aww yeah biatches - it's time for the third round of Imaginary Garage, and this time it's your turn. As you can see, our starting point is a new 2010 Triumph Bonneville. Sweet, huh? So what's the hold-up? Let's light up the blow torches and get medieval on it's ass!

So how is this going to work? OK, there's going to be two rounds of suggestions as to how we will modify the Bonnie and all submissions will be done via comments below. Round 1 will be the big stuff; tires, wheels, tank, seat, and exhaust etc. What we're after is something like "I think we should make it into an X style of bike with Y style tires, Z type and colour of wheels etc." In a way we're your local shop and you're briefing us to build this bike for you, so obviously "make a cafe racer with a cool tank" won't do it. We're looking for creative, original, clear ideas. No essays, please. We choose the winner, make the mods, and post the results. The winner gets a brand new Pipeburn King Kong tee worth $30.

Round 2 will be all about the tweaks; paint colours, adding or removing chrome, ride height, decals, handle bars and generally perfecting the look of the thing. Same deal as the first round; submissions via the comments section and be detailed. Again, we choose the best entry, make the mods, post the results and announce the winner. Prize for this round is your choice of any other tee in the Pipeburn shop.

You have 48 hours to get your ideas posted before we close round 1 so get them in ASAP. Leave a valid email address so we can contact the winners. I'll update the article to let you all know where we are in the scheme of things.

And lastly, please remember that this is a bit of an experiment so please be patient. Now get to it!

Update on Saturday, November 27, 2010 by Andrew

Round 1 is closed!

Seriously impressive stuff guys. Nice work and thanks to everyone for taking the time to enter the comp. There's so many good ideas in there that it's damn tempting to do more than one, but in the end there has to be a winner - and we've decided that the first round (and the Pipeburn Tee) goes to Emaychee's hillclimber. Honestly dude, you had us at "Bonnehille"; such a cool idea and really not what we were expecting at all, but so original and interesting. Can't wait to see what it looks like!

We'll try and have the bike modded within the next day or so, so now is the time to start nutting out the best way to finish off Emaychee's brainchild. How's it look in your head? Take five minutes and let us know - there's still one more tee up for grabs. Emaychee - feel free to help out on round two as well.

We'll be right back...

Update on Monday, November 29, 2010 by Andrew

Guys - meet our new Triumph "Bonnehille":

As previously mentioned Round 2 will be all about the tweaks; paint colours, adding or removing chrome, ride height, decals, handle bars and generally perfecting the look of the thing. Prize for this round is your choice of any other tee in the Pipeburn shop.

So hop to it. It looks pretty sweet, but it's not finished yet. Should it have decals? Maybe some race numbers? Does it really need a light? Do they do hillclimbing at night? Did I just invent a new sport? Whatever - you've got 36 hours.

Update on Tuesday, November 30, 2010 by Andrew

Round 2 is closed!

Again - thanks for all the entries guys. Another stellar effort. Congratulations to Charles for taking out this round - you've got yourself your choice of any non-Pipeburn tee from our shop. Love the two-tone, love the emblem, love the tach - nice work.

We should have the changes done shortly - be sure you check it out; I think we should have one seriously cool looking bike once we're done.

Don't y'all go nowhere...

Goldenboy Bonneville

The Northern Italian city Parma is home to one of the oldest Universities in the world, but it's the Gallimoto Factory Works who have a 'Masters Degree' in building cafe racers. They say a true cafe racer must meet very specific rules: low handlebars, a single seat, a pair of thundering exhausts and lots of chrome like the Triumphs, Tritons, and Nortons of the past. This Bonneville SE they have appropriately called the 'Goldenboy' ticks all those boxes and more. We love how they have used gold anodized aluminium on the chain guard, sprocket cover, front fender and the speedometer plate - the gold mixed with the Red Velvet paint is a regal combination. Although this bonnie is more than just good looking, it has the parallel twin engine with electronic injection to meet Euro 3 regulations and unleashes its power through a pair of Megaton exhausts. Handling has not been neglected, the emulsion hydraulic shock absorbers are adjustable and the braking is assisted by a pair of higher performance sintered pads. The mag wheels have been treated with resistant black epoxy resin fitted with Dunlop Sportmax Mutant larger section tyres. If you like what you see and live in Europe, Gallimoto can build a bike like this to your specs for around €12,600. When Gallimoto aren't customizing their own bikes they are selling parts on Best For Britts, which are one of the biggest suppliers of Triumph custom parts in Europe.

68 Bonneville Custom

Discovered this Bonneville Custom on an Italian site called Cafe Racer Culture. It's a pretty sweet site packed full of cafe racer and custom goodies. Because man (especially Italian men) can't live on bikes alone theres also loads of beautiful pinup girls if the bikes weren't getting you excited. Hit the jump if you want to see more pics of this orange retro Bonnie. Another Triumph worth checking out is this great Bonneville Cafe Racer.

Triumph Street Tracker

BellaCorse are a large seller of Triumph Bonneville parts and accessories in Michigan, USA. The owner Michael Selman also built this mean Street Tracker. Project Swiss Misfortune is an eyecatcher that started life as a 2002 790cc Bonnie. The engine has been bored-out to 904cc and has Keihin Racing FCR-39mm flat slide carbs and a BellaCorse Air Box Elimination kit installed. The 2-1 exhaust is from Zard of Italy and is a Titanium-alloy construction. The alloy tank and seat were hand-made and are loosely patterned after the H-D XR750. You can definitely see the resemblance especially in the seat. With all that chrome and a powerful moan, who wouldn't want to take it home. For more Triumph Trackers check out the legendary Triumph Flat Track blog.