Time Warp: A ‘vintage’ motorcycle built from scratch

A huge part of the custom scene is making modern motorcycles look older. Removing plastics, softening angles, fitting things like spoked wheels and simple mufflers. Take that trend to the logical extreme, and you have a custom like this one. It looks like it’s a century old, but it’s only just been built. It comes from the astoundingly talented Alessandro Rorato—a 39-year-old model-making specialist from Veneto, Italy. To understand the bike, you often need to understand the man. Alessandro showed an aptitude for building things from a very early age, while plundering materials from his grandfather's workshop. As a youngster,...