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    LIGHTNING McQUEEN

    Jul 12, 2017 6 minutes
    WORDS GEOFF SEDDON PHOTOS ANTOINE TRUCHET
    “STANCE WAS BANG ON SO IT WAS TIME TO FOCUS ON MAKING IT A FUNCTIONAL MOTORCYCLE AGAIN”

    THE all-new 1200cc Triumph T120 was not yet in full production when the factory first approached Alec Sharp and Rafe Pugh from Old Empire Motorcycles early last year about building a custom from it. It was a big call from both sides.

    OEM had been approached a few times regarding working for a big brand, but it never came about previously due to their practice of working without preconceived visual references, instead going wherever their muse took them over the course of the build. “It’s difficult to convince the company to just leave it to us,” Alec says. “As we have turned out more and more bikes, that trust gets stronger and the decision gets easier to not only work alongside us, but to let us have almost completely free creative reign.

    “The loose brief was to create something that caught the

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