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Jimmy explains their thought process with the look, “I was planning on doing those black Biltwell Tracker bars, and she was in love with the Natural Gum grips, so oddly enough, those became a design focal point. That sounds weird, but the grips led us to other decisions with a contrasting warm palette.”
“We had also seen a 1965 T120R that had a similar paint scheme and two-tone design. It’s not a vintage bike though and we didn’t want anyone to think we were fooling them, so we shifted the hue a bit, and tried to balance the color saturation.” Through this Jimmy had in the back of his mind a robin-egg-blue seen on Mini Coopers for use on the tank.