I am one of the most bike enthusiasts for whom the difference between fast and slow, comfort and pain, safe and unsafe matters a lot. This is where the CP Project One comes in to fit the best part of the best bike builders as well as of enthusiasts. It would not be an overstatement to call their recent work: Triton which is a dream bike for all enthusiasts.
This gorgeous Triton was built by the extraordinarily talented Daniel Delfour, one of France’s leading motorcycle builders and is the brainchild of Vincent Prat from Southsiders MC and French designers Frank Charriaut. Actually, there is a story behind ‘CP Project #1′. It was totally inspired by a trip to the 2008 Legend Of The Motorcycle event held in California; Delfour’s exquisite Norton Ala’verda caused a stir there, so the three friends made plans for a sequel.
The design was to create a low-slung and very slim motorcycle, all in black. A leading French fashion house was on board by this point, and the tightly imposed specifications proved to be a challenge. Frank, Delfour carved multi-part moulds for the bodywork in plywood, balancing the shapes and volumes of the tank and seat until the styling came together as a whole. Its featherbed frame is spacious whereas a Triumph 750 Bonneville engine is compact.
Its engine was rebuilt to original specifications by using a TR7 single-carburetor head instead of using the fussier stock twin-carb item. From French master builder Momo (who not only painted the bodywork in a black flake and the frame in gloss black), the visual finishing touches came, but created the exhaust system and heat guards also.
The finished motorcycle was then handed over to Benoit Gerry from Studio Ze for the first image captures. I hope you would like Triton.
