CHANGE AGENT
LIKE most hobby builders, Nick O’Kane doesn’t build the same custom motorcycle twice. But exceptions are what make the rule. After building a cafe racer from a Suzuki TL1000R a few years ago that ended up looking very much like this one, he entered it on completion in the Progressive International Motorcycle Show in Long Beach, California. He didn’t win any tinware, but he did receive an unsolicited offer to sell it that was too good to refuse. He took the cash on the spot but almost immediately regretted it.
A rider as much as a custom bike builder, Nick put his energy (and some of the proceeds) into a hardridden Triumph Speed Triple streetfighter and later the carbon-fibre six-cylinder CBX1000 track bike that we featured last issue. His wife
