'Featherbed 865' Triton

There seem to be endless permutations of the classic Triton motorcycle. But I haven’t seen this mix of old and new before: It’s a modern Hinckley-built 865cc engine in a 1954 Norton frame. 'Featherbed 865' is the ingenious creation of 31-year-old Scandinavian mechanic Lars Lykkegaard, who found himself with a troublesome Triton powered by an old 650cc Bonneville engine. “It always had problems with the charging system, or it would eat the spark plugs all the time, even though I fixed the carbs and the wiring,” he says. “I started investigating what to do. Renovating a old English engine can...