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..
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.
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.
Rightly so, it shouldn’t work; a curvy bike with a very pointy fairing stuck on the front of it; not a chance..
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.
It’s not really finished, as some modifications are on the cards when lockdown ends, but that’s the same for most projectbikes
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.
Congratulations Matt-man, your KaTL is this month Bike of the Month
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