Written by Marlon Slack
I?ve been obsessed with custom motorcycles for the last fourteen years. And no small amount of that infatuation has been directed towards variants of the Triumph Bonneville. I?ve got an entire folder on my home computer dedicated to the model. Thousands of photos of the Bonnie modified in every way you can imagine. But none are anything like this, a stripped back, blacked-out 2002 Bonneville created by Italy?s Alea Motorcycles dubbed ?Blacksun?.

Alea Motorcycles have produced some wild customs in the last two-and-a-bit years they?ve been operating. But soon they?re going to change up a gear. They?re launching a new motorcycle death star – 300 square meters of workshop that will also house a bar and a library. Sounds good, but thankfully bikes will remain their primary focus. Bikes that embody their motto of ?Not Ordinary Motorcycles?. And the Blacksun shouts that slogan from the rooftops.
The goal with the Blacksun Bonnie was to produce something distinctly different, a mix of styles coming together to create what the Alea team describe as a ?post atomic? motorcycle. A very clean post-atomic motorcycle. Hell, if this is what we?ll be kicking around on in the ashes of humanity I?d say we go ahead and drop the bomb right now. They dubbed the bike ?Blacksun?. The first half of the name is obvious, given the paint scheme. The ?Sun? part of the moniker refers to the yellow-tinted headlight, which reminded the builders of their own Southern I...