Tool Time: A Yamaha SR500 built by a machine tool company

There's nothing unusual about building a custom motorcycle with the primary purpose of taking it to a show. But what if the show in question has absolutely nothing to do with custom motorcycles? That's a cool twist. This sharply styled Yamaha SR500 flat tracker is the pet project of 27-year-old Maxime Fontvielle. He's an application engineer at the French operation of the US machine tool company, Hurco—a career he got into thanks to a love of two wheelers. “When I was a teenager,” he tells us, “I was passionate about mopeds. While looking at the forums, I saw people making...