Since he launched Blacktrack Motors, Sacha Lakic has had a singular focus. His goal is to design café racers that borrow inspiration from the past, but look to the future with modern lines, materials, and performance.
Blacktrack’s debut bike was an impossibly sharp Honda CX500 café racer. But the brand quickly moved onto bigger and newer donor bikes, with Sacha pouring more and more of his extensive design experience into each subsequent project. This evolution is clear in his latest offering; a custom Indian Scout dubbed the Blacktrack BT-06.

The fact that the BT-06 borrows more styling cues from the world of product design than motorcycling is no accident. Blacktrack created this café racer as part of a collaboration with the luxury watch brand Bell & Ross, who, in turn, designed a limited edition watch for the project. The two design teams worked together closely to ensure that there was a strong visual connection between motorcycle and watch. Blacktrack’s machines typically have a slightly neo-futuristic vibe?but here, that aesthetic is cranked up to eleven. Geometric bodywork dominates this custom Indian Scout, with ceramic-like surfaces and machined details recalling various elements of Bell & Ross watches. The bike’s large window-like side panels are a direct homage to the squared bezels and visible bolts; a Bell & Ross staple.

There’s a certain sophistication to the geometric nature of the bodywork and the layered effect ...