Written by Andrew Jones
When it comes to winning at life, it’s hard not to think that New England’s Walt Siegl has got things all figured out. Hell, if life was an olympic sport, Walt would be covered with more gilt than Auric Goldfinger’s secretary. While you and I wake on Monday mornings with a grimace and a necessarily strong coffee, Walt leaps out of bed revelling in the fact that his day will be full of beautiful Italian motorcycles, a workshop that was once and old stone mill, and a town that appears to be taken straight from a postcard and that is surrounded by some of the best roads on America’s eastern coast. And the real kick in the family jewels" He’s got the skills to make customs like this racy Bol d?Or MV Agusta Brutale.
Before we got to the meaty parts of the chat, we started by talking to Walt about some current affairs. ?We are in the process of completing our first two superbike projects. We’re calling them ?WSM SBK?; they are based on liquid-cooled Ducati engines up to the Panigale engines. Interestingly, their frames are designed in such a way that they can also house the air-cooled engines that Ducati has built over the years.?
So beautiful, you’d almost want to be in 2nd place
And then, on to the bike du jour. As with most of Walt’s beautiful builds, This 2014 MV Agusta Brutale 800, which he’s calling quite simply the Bol d’Or, is an 80s-style performance bike based on the increasin...