HASTE WITH TASTE. Heiwa Motorcycles’ ‘Flavor’ ’58 Triumph T110 Scrambler
gooD customs require good taste, and here's a man with the best of both - Kengo Kimura from Hiroshima’s Heiwa Motorcycles.
Walking through the rows of bikes recently at a small regional motorcycle show, I got chatting to a guy who’d just finished a three-year rebuild of a Triumph 6T Thunderbird. She was a beauty, glistening in the sun like the day it had left the factory floor. With great enthusiasm I asked the owner how it was on the open road, the answer sadly is one that’s becoming all too common, “It doesn’t leave the garage!” Thankfully the motorcycle gods have given us Kengo Kimura of Hiroshima’s Heiwa Motorcycles who builds the most incredible old school customs and boy are they built to ride. His latest offering is a ’58 Triumph Tiger T110 that’s original patina earns it the nickname ‘Flavor’.
While most Heiwa builds have a killer show quality finish combined with daily rideability that makes them some of the best custom motorcycles on the planet; the customer wanted this bike to have more of a Rat Rod finish. Although very wisely they still desired some of that unmistakable Kimura-san style. The donor bike came from America, the very market the T110 had been developed for, where consumers wanted more power and impressive top speed numbers.
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