Time is the enemy if you?re a one-man-band working in the custom scene. Builds can drag on and on, especially if you?re working part-time or after hours. Weeks turn into months, and even years.
So Sean Pelletier, the man behind The Motoworks in Rochester, NY, set himself a challenge. ?How quickly can you build a very custom, very high quality bike"? he says. ?The idea was to eliminate (or minimize) the amount of wasted time and labor that often goes into a custom.?

Sean started out by choosing a mid-70s GT380 as a donor, and picking ?performance/sport? as the style of the build. He roughed out some basic geometry, then figured out what he wanted the Zook to look like.
Sean called in Denver-based industrial designer Jeremy Lacy for help with the design. ?Working with the mechanical parameters that we?d established, he helped us to figure out the bodywork,? says Sean. ?Once his sketches were finalized, the mechanical design of the bike could be finished and the bodywork designed in 3D?turning the 2D sketches into workable 3D parts.?
The design of this GT380 was broken down to a series of parts that could be machined or welded; the build itself involved putting the pieces together like a kit. ?Since the pieces were all carefully designed in CAD, no time was wasted in reworking things once they were built,? says Sean.
?For example, we didn?t have to worry about the front fender hitting the fairing because we already moved the parts around in CAD to make sure there w...