A spectacular Ducati designed to celebrate Alpinestars’ 55th anniversary, a Kawasaki GPX 600 R built by a lecturer in economics, an electric dragster from Alta, and a cafe racer … rocking horse from Germany.

Kawasaki GPX 600 R by Jordi Soldevila The Golden Ratio is a mathematically driven design technique that, when applied properly, should render appealing, natural looking creations. It?s some pretty high-level stuff, which typically takes industry pros years of practice to get right. And I?d argue it?s even more complicated when the creation needs to be ridden. In Jordi Soldevila?s case, it took about 27 months.
Yes, you read that correctly. This is financial consultant and economic lecturer Jordi?s first ever custom. He?s not a seasoned bike builder, but he is a passionate perfectionist with a long history with bikes.
Not wanting to make things easy for himself, Jordi began with a plastic-fantastic Kawasaki GPX 600 R and promptly scrapped everything but the engine, frame and wiring loom. Everything else on this bike was hand built, shaped and welded by Jordi. He also rebuilt the engine, swapped both the front and rear suspension with those from a modern Gixxer, and machined the necessary bits to make it all fit together.
Jordi then started on the bodywork, which he transformed from sketch to wireframe and buck, finishing with a very pretty fiberglass fairing, tank and tail. Oh, and he had to teach himself how to do all of these things along the way. U...