Hardtail choppers with fat rear tires aren’t typically our vibe, but we’re suckers for anything Martin Becker builds. He’s a Meister of stance and proportions, and has a great eye for detail?making his builds far too good to be ignored.
Martin’s track record is exactly why his client was happy to give him free rein. Sebastian and his girlfriend already own customs from MB Cycles, and then Sebastian walked in one day and spotted the donor for this project.

Martin had bought the Buell just two days prior; a runner with a 1996 M2 Cyclone motor, in a hardtail frame from the now-defunct German company SCS. It used to belong to a friend of his, who raced it at the Glemseck 101. That friend then sold it, and it eventually ended up in Martin’s hands. Luckily the 1,203 cc Buell motor was still in good condition, and the bike had all the right papers. But it was well used, and a far cry from the polished machine you’re looking at now. Sebastian saw potential and commissioned the project?so Martin tore the whole thing apart, and spent four months rebuilding it as a genre-blending cafe-chop of sorts.

The motor was left alone inside, but it was yanked out of the bike and given a fresh coat of wrinkle black. Martin put it back with a Keihin CV carb and a K&N filter, a Dyna S single fire ignition, and coils from S&S Cycle. Then he fabricated new exhaust headers, and installed a Dr. Jekill & Mr Hyde muffler that has an electronically co...