"Bad News" - by Jeremy Hoyer

‘Bad News’ apparently started life as a beat-up, worn-out race bike that Jeremy Hoyer found in a garage in Kentucky. He’s a mechanic for a dirt bike race team, and he wanted a bobber project to give himself a change of scene. Hoyer says, "Being a race team mechanic is cool, but it gets boring building the same bike over and over again.” Bad News got its name from a conversation Hoyer had with his roommate, while staring at the bike the night Hoyer brought it home.

His roommate had asked what I knew about Triumphs and he replied, ‘Nothing, it’s probably all gonna be bad news!’ So, the name stuck throughout the build process.” You’d never guess, but Hoyer had never built a bike from scratch before: “It was a great lesson in ‘what not to do’ … I tried to keep everything very simple and clean. I tried to reuse every original part I could. I didn't want to lose any character or history associated with the bike. If it was old and I could refurbish it, I did.” A lot of the look and feel of the bike comes from Hoyer’s racing background; he describes the look he wanted as ‘vintage racy’. “I hope people enjoy the bike as much as I do,” Hoyer says. “It was fun to build, it’s a blast to ride, and I’m looking forward to my next project. I believe this bike was first seen in 2009 at the Dave Mann Chopperfest.