Gold Digger: A Kawasaki W650 street tracker from Ton-Up

It’s not a good time to be a bike builder in Portugal at the moment: The country is finding it much harder than most to recover from the depression. So it’s reassuring to see a quality custom build coming from the westernmost country of Europe. Pedro and Daniel of Ton-Up Garage are both keen enduro riders, and they’ve long wanted to build a street tracker. “Our ambition was to build a motorcycle that’s ‘in the middle’—between road and off-road,” says Pedro. ‘Gold Digger’ started life as a 2004 Kawasaki W650. It’d already been lightly customized, but that didn’t deter the...