ART FOR OUR SAKE

An important difference between motorcycles and cars is that while cars enclose their mechanism, motorcycles reveal theirs, presenting a wealth of eye-attracting visual elements. Parts and assemblies that come into being for purely functional reasons—Öhlins forks whose tubes are golden with hard titanium carbide, wheelie bars from the dragstrip, or the light-and-dark duo of titanium’s blond gleam and the textured black of carbon fiber—sprout as seeds in the visual imaginations of those who build motorcycle art.

Freed from the slavery of function, these elements could travel in any direction, undergoing any kind of transformation, but in general, custom builders