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Thrive Motorcycle T 005 Croos Is a Design Study Well-Worth Your Attention

T 005 Croos is so far from the typical custom motorcycle that we'd be ready to call it a prototype, if a dystopian one. Thrive Motorcycles wanted to explore the misty grey zone between insane concept bikes that can only exist on paper or in digital form and the traditional motorcycle territory.
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As they say themselves, "we believe if the grey area is more mysterious than you could ever think, it could be really bad and smartly good at the same time. This thought pushes us to develop a motorcycle that can be perfectly use when facing the road in a bad condition but still have her own beauty and sleekness nature from the owner’s thought."

Beyond any shadow of a doubt, they nailed it, as the Croos is a bike that elegantly transcends functionality and beauty, imposing standards of its own. It is a strong example of love-it-or-hate-it design. We kind of love it, but not too dearly. Maybe it has to be ridden to reveal its full character. One thing is certain: it will stick to your retina, in either a good or a bad way.

A Yamaha Scorpio was transformed into this sheet aluminium creature

The T 005 Croos is based on a Yamaha Scorpio, so it packs around 18 horsepower and 17.5Nm (12.9 lb-ft) of torque. The powerplant is an air-cooled 223cc SOHC thumper mated to a 5-speed transmission. If anything, a light machine that can do pretty much anything in the small-displacement territory, from commuting and fast highway hauls to off-road.

The subframe was reworked to suit the general horizontal idea, and aluminium became the material of choice for the entire build. The engine was working well and only got a larger PE-28 carburetor that should make the bike a little more nervous. And with the reduced weight, things really start sounding interesting.

Thrive had to modify the trees and the steering column of an USD Honda fork to make it compliant with the Yamaha frame. Renthal handlebars replaced the stock ones, and custom switching hardware was installed, alongside clean-looking bar-end turn signals and custom levers.

In the rear, a custom-made unitrack system was fabricated and a Showa monoshock bow smooths out the bumps. The Scorpio cast wheels were binned and replaced with 18" wire spoked ones that can take a beating, show with Kenda trial tires.

A bash plate protects the engine and a custom exhaust went under the seat for a clean look. It does look like a retro vacuum cleaner up close, but is nevertheless coherent with the rest of the design language.

Thrive only used gunmetal grey and black for the Croos, but speaking of the black, no less than three different powder coating paints were used for distinctive looks.

Not exactly a bike we'd fall in love at first sight, the Thrive Motorcycle T 005 Croos is, anyway, one of the cleanest, most fluent builds we saw lately.
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