46Works turns the first-gen Multistrada into a looker
The incomparable Yokohama Hot Rod Custom Show went down this past weekend, and as usual the brightest stars of the Japanese custom scene pulled out all the stops. We weren’t there in person this time, but thanks to social media we’ve already earmarked our favorite builds from the show. Here’s the first: a genre-defying Ducati Multistrada from 46Works.
46Works is the current project of Shiro Nakajima, the original founder of the Japanese powerhouse Ritmo Sereno. He now lives a quieter life at the base of the Yatsugatake Mountain range, in a gorgeous wooden building that also contains his home workshop.
Nakajima-san spends a lot of his weekends either on the track, or on a multitude of nearby B-roads, on two wheels and four. So he has a thing for building machines that are actually good runners. That ethos is on full display in this 2005 Ducati Multistrada 1000 DS. The older Multistrada’s a bit of a sleeper, offering pretty decent performance, albeit at the expense of gawky looks. Shiro traded the donor from one of his customers, and had something very special in mind for it.
?I traveled to the USA about 25 years ago with a red Ducati 750GT,? he tells us. ?It was a very memorable motorcycle, but now the ?roundcase? Ducati is very expensive.?
?So I decided to make a modern version of the 750GT with the 2005 Multistrada. The concept is not a cafe racer, scrambler or cruiser?it is a simple and classic ?road sport? with no fairing.?
The visual cha...
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