"The Ace" by Dime City Cycles

This build comes from Jason Paul Michaels and Herm Narciso at Dime City Cycles, The Ace. Built to commemorate the Ace Cafeâ€™s coming to America, the bike is a modern take on the classic Triton theme. Power comes from Triumph, in this case the fuel-injected 865cc parallel twin used in the current Triumph Bonneville.

The frame borrows its basic layout and geometry from the famous Norton Featherbed, with revised steering geometry and a modern Suzuki GSXR upside down fork.

Improving on the original McCandless designed featherbed frame from the early â€™50s was no easy task. It was only when the thought to take a modern Hinkley Bonneville (which hangs the swinging arm from the engine vs. the frame) that the true potential of Rex and Crommies design is realised. The crew at Dime City worked with Kevin Dunworth on a ground-up 4130 .058 wall chromoly tubed variant of the featherbed (the closest thing to Reynolds tubing available in the U.S.) only in this case, the engine acts as the stressed member connecting the head tube to the swinging arm. This allows for an extremely lightweight frame design and almost completely eliminates risk of breakage.

With the sole emphasis being on performance the team then worked with Racetech to spec a completely custom suspension system that takes advantage of the weight and power distribution of the modern Triumph Twin as well as the Aceâ€™s geometry which was built, as close as possible, to modern Superbike specifications.