Triumphant: a Supercharged Triumph Street Tracker
If you love yourself some flat track racing, you’ll probably recognize the number on this stunning Triumph. In the late sixties, ‘9’…
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Several types of motorcycles can be called ‘trackers.’ The original is the board tracker, named after the machines that raced on board tracks in the USA in the 1910s and 1920s.
In the 1930s, as the board tracks faded away, flat track racers appeared: street bikes modified to race on dirt or clay ovals. Past icons include the Harley-Davidson XR-750, but others include flat trackers from BSA, Norton and Triumph. This style is still popular today, with interest spurred by an intense rivalry between Harley-Davidson and Indian.
Flat track motorcycles (or dirt trackers, as they are sometimes known) do not have front brakes, but the slimmed-down style has been copied by builders of ‘street tracker’ customs.
Fat Tracker: Wolf Moto’s chunky Yamaha TW200
Building a decent custom motorcycle can be a daunting task. But when your customer is also an accomplished builder, the pressure is…
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Hollywood Harley: A Sportster 883 Dirt Tracker
The list of manufacturers putting out scramblers seems to grow daily. But the memo hasn’t reached Milwaukee: Harley-Davidson have yet to jump…
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The Mach Chicken: A smokin’ Kawasaki S1 tracker
Flat-trackers and two-strokes are some of our favorite things. Combine the two, and we’re hooked. All the more if the two-stroke in…
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Yamaha dirt tracker by Jeff Palhegyi
Is there any racing livery more evocative than Yamaha’s classic ‘speed block’ pattern? Put it on a dirt tracker, and you’ve got…
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KTM Tracker by Roland Sands
I’m surprised we don’t see more KTMs on the custom scene. Maybe it’s because the Austrian bikes offer great performance straight out…
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Flat tracker by Lorenzo Buratti
There’s something strangely appealing about flat tracker bikes. Maybe it’s the stripped-back look. Or the stubby proportions. Or the way the front…
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Yamaha YZ250 flat tracker
Modern race bikes leave me cold, but vintage machinery gets my motor running. It’s mostly because you can actually see the bike…
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Racing on a budget: Co-Built’s flat track racing motorcycle
Co-Built is one of those companies quietly bubbling under, deserving of a higher profile. They’re three guys based in Oxford in England,…
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Mule “Stealth” Street-Tracker
By David Edwards—Here’s the latest street-tracker from Richard Pollock at Mule Motorcycles, a 1200 Harley nicknamed “Stealth” due to its black and…
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Mule Yamaha XS750 “Café-Tracker”
By David Edwards — Richard Pollock knows a thing or two about street-trackers. Doing business as Mule Motorcycles out of a converted…
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Yamaha XS400 tracker
It’s usually Yamaha’s XS650 that gets the custom treatment, so it’s nice to see a smaller capacity XS get a workover. This…
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