Interview: Ola Stenegärd, motorcycle designer

I’ve always imagined motorcycle designers to be technicians in white lab coats. So I was surprised to discover that Indian Motorcycles’ Director of Product Design is a freewheeling Swede with a passion for old-school choppers. Ola Stenegärd studied Industrial Design in Stockholm and worked for SAAB and Indian Motorcycles before joining BMW in 2003 and returning to Indian in 2018. “I grew up in a garage, more or less,” he says. “My older brother was into bikes. My Dad taught me how to weld almost before I could read, and Mom taught me how to draw. Eventually I connected the...