Side Project: Bryan Heidt's Ducati 860 cafe racer

Somewhere round the back of every custom shop is an unloved bike that’s been sitting there for months, waiting for its moment in the limelight. In the Atlanta, Georgia shop of Fuller Moto, the unloved bike was this classic Ducati. Of course, it didn’t look anything like the sleek cafe racer we see here. The Ducati’s savior was Bryan Heidt, a metal fabricator with a background in industrial design who has been working at Fuller for eight years now. “It’s '75 Ducati 860,” Heidt tells us. “It’s named Cavallo Nero, Italian for ‘dark horse.’” The bike started as a motor...