Custom Ducati Pantah racer: Hermann Köpf's 'Resterampe'

Hang out at a few European motorcycle events, and you're bound to run into Hermann Köpf. The shaggy-haired Munich-based photographer is the former editor of the exquisite magazine Craftrad—and a total petrolhead. When an informal Germany v France rivalry was set up at this year's Glemseck 101 festival, Herr Köpf couldn't help but put his name down. His steed: this pick-n-mix Ducati Pantah 500. Hermann actually started building the Pantah long before Glemseck (“to have a cheap and trashy vehicle that can also be used for flat tracking or similar nonsense,” he states). But between work and family life, it...