A paradigmatic shift
‘The Needle was the anti-custom, sat beside the most bombastic and egocentric of creations, it was the whisper heard over the shouting, gesturing crowd and I fell in love with it immediately’
SOMEHOW IN THE past 10 years I’ve developed an intimate relationship with the custom motorcycle world, or at least, the ‘alt.custom’ scene as popularised by the likes of the BikeExif website. And yet, I’ve never actually owned a new-generation custom motorcycle, I have only once been tempted to buy one and I don’t build them myself. Somehow
