Max Hazan is known for building impossibly elegant, hand-crafted machines. His customs ride the line between motorcycles and art so well, that they confound the usual arguments about function versus form.
Hazan can play both sides of that particular coin, though. He once built a KTM 950 supermotard for personal use, aiming for a pseudo-factory look and ridability. Then a potential customer asked him to build another one just like it… and things snowballed.

?He actually wanted to buy the 950,? says the Los Angeles-based custom builder, ?and was disappointed that I?d sold it to someone else. I was going to build him a similar KTM, but then he saw my Knucklehead sportbike. He decided he wanted something ?crazy? now, and something to ride later on.? The brief eventually evolved into ?go wild, make whatever you want.? But it took Max a while to come up with the concept of the twin-engined, bicycle-inspired machine you’re looking at here. ?I always like to think of something unique,? he explains. ?If I’m going to spend six months working on something, I want it to be worth the effort in the end.?

?This idea came when I found one of these Velocette MAC engines on eBay and it turned out the seller was down the street. I knew right away when I saw the shape of the engine cases that two of them would fit together perfectly, and I could make a twin engine bike that didn’t look like the usual twin engine drag bike.?
The post-war MAC motor is a 349 cc air-c...