Custom Bikes Of The Week: 20 August, 2017
Dustin Kott returns with the bike he said he’d never build. Plus a sleek Harley Super Hooligan racer, and a Benelli restomod from a pair of Barcelona dental surgeons. It’s a toothsome selection this week.
Benelli Tornado by Elegant Apparatus When the topics of dentists and motorcycles intertwine, it inevitably involves something to do with weekends, fringed-leather fetishists and beastly baggers. There are, of course, exceptions to the rule. Take Barcelonian brothers Facundo and Guillermo Falcó: they are dental surgeons, and the men behind Elegant Apparatus and this jaw dropping Benelli Tornado restomod.
At first glance, it would appear that los hermanos Falcó simply buffed and restored an old classic. But closer inspection reveals a bevy of purposeful tweaks that set this particular apparatus apart. The seat and subframe are all new units, and the pillion pegs are fully removable, positioned a few notches higher to make room for a homemade, upswept exhaust. Up front the clip-ons are also a homebrew kit, and have had a set of switchgear internally fitted. Just below those controls sits a hand-rolled fender that matches its rearward counterpart. An interesting tidbit about this build: when the donor was found, it was missing its front end. Which is not a big deal, in itself?except Guillermo just happened to be sitting on one from a scrap purchase some thirty years prior. Well, that just makes us smile. [More]
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