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LITTLE BOY BLUE

ULFERT Janssen lives the life. Formerly an automotive designer for Renault, he now pens mostly two-wheeled customs for well-healed clients through his business, Garnet Design, in Switzerland. Not all get built and those that do he doesn’t build himself. Instead, he and his clients commission third-party workshops to bring his drawings to life, while Ulfert dreams up the next one.

His designs cover all the usual suspects — BMW R nineT, Triumph Bonneville/Thruxton, Ducati Scrambler, Yamaha Bolt — as well as less obvious choices like MV Agusta, the modern

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