Jupiter’s was at the International Motorcycle Show in Long Beach this past weekend. Although we rent only BMW’s, here at Jupiter’s we’re big fans of café style racer’s, as well as old school dirt bike’s, and pretty much anything Steve McQueen.
The King of Cool’s fave bike was on display at Southern California Triumph; the Metisse Triumph/BSA hybrid dirt bike the moded himself along with the help of his friend Bud Ekins Apparently Southern California Triumph is selling the hybrid bike that McQueen used to ride and love.
This thing is a beauty, as far as I recalled, these kind of old school dirt bikes were usually pieced together by whoever was riding them; with parts from Triumph, BSA, and other random but light and inexpensive parts. Basically, they were taking road bikes and mod-ing them to fit a dirt bike ride experience.
We haven’t gotten a chance to do a lot of dirt bike riding here at Jupiter’s, but we sure do covet it, and we covet pretty much anything The King of Cool did. So we’ll get on it real soon.In the meanwhile, I guess we could always get this Metisse:
If you’re still salivating for more info on the Metisse, check these links out:http://www.metisse-motorcycles.com/ http://www.angelfire.com/biz/snwvlly/bikes/steve.htm
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