Triumph custom bobber 'Bad News'

A few weeks ago, this beautiful Triumph custom turned up on Chop Cult, one of the best old school custom sites. It's a dirt-track influenced bobber that attracted a lot of attention at last year's David Mann Chopperfest; the word was that it was built by a guy from California called Jeremy Hoyer, but other information was scarce. So with a little help from Chop Cult’s Bill Bryant and Four Aces’ Wes White, I managed to track down and speak to the very helpful Mr Hoyer. ‘Bad News’ apparently started life as a beat-up, worn-out race bike that Hoyer found...