American Motorcycle Dealer AMD 171 October 2013 | Page 55
Zen and the art of motorcycle
maintenance
Laurent Dutruel not only took second place in the Freestyle class at the 2013 World
Championship of Custom Bike Building but, he also took top honors in the Street
Performance class. The bike with which he won the title was his XR 1200 Turbo, which after
the show he was planning on taking to Bonneville to race on the salt
ANY of the motorcycles to have
come out of the workshop of Zen
Motorcycles have had a definite
Old School or Board Track flavor to them.
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