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THE FLYING ’57

PRETTY much every custom bike builder on the planet has a house style, from Japanese master craftsman Kengo Kimura to US metal wizard Max Hazan and German power duo Diamond Atelier. You could look at any of their bikes and know who built it, generally speaking. This is not a criticism, quite the opposite. I can’t get enough of them, evidenced by multiple features from each of these workshops over the past four years and hopefully many more in the future.

If Christian Moretti from Plan B Motorcycles in northern Italy has#30). They don’t come much more from left field than that!

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