CAPTAIN AMERICA
WHEN Grant Jarrett had a hankering for a new bike 16 years ago, he was thinking cruiser but nothing caught his fancy. “I’m not into Harleys,” he says, “and then Triumph brought out the America. I bought one of the first batch of 70 the factory made in 2001.”
He brought the bike home and rang his good friend Fernando Alvarez in Brisbane. “Start it up and let me listen to it,” said Fernando, who mistook it for the sound of a sewing machine. He could fix that, he said. “Give it to me for one winter.”
Hop-up parts for Triumph’s new twin were all but non-existent, no problem for Fernando and his mate Joe Marshall who builds
