It’s not often that I have a hard time to come up with the words to a BOTM article but this time, I’m genuinely struggling. You see, this bike is a bit different to everything else we do on OSS, as is Matt, tbf..
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No cradle frame, no aircooled engine, it doesn’t even have 4 cilinders, yet here it is. The OSS breed has a very narrow vision of what goes and what doesn’t, and there’s very little deviation from this path.
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However, every now and again, something stands out amongst the crowd; something that works when in reality it shouldn’t. If you were to say to one of us; I’m gonna build a TLS, with a Kat fairing and a GP-like seat, we’d call you mad.
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Rightly so, it shouldn’t work; a curvy bike with a very pointy fairing stuck on the front of it; not a chance..
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However, looking at the pics of the finished article, I think we can all agree Matt-man has actually pulled it off and made it look as intended.
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It’s not really finished, as some modifications are on the cards when lockdown ends, but that’s the same for most projectbikes
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I met Matt-man for the first time in 2008, in a pub in Buxton; I called him mad then, this bike just proves me right.
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Congratulations Matt-man, your KaTL is this month Bike of the Month
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