Have Snowboard, Will Travel: Titan’s Kawasaki Z500

We love perfectly manicured, high-gloss customs, but we're not purists. For some, this cheeky Kawasaki Z500 may be too brash—but it's right up our alley. It's the work of Titan Motorcycles: an Austrian workshop founded last year by friends Tom Possod and Michael Siebenhofer. Based in Graz, the duo had one idea in mind when they kicked off the project... “Winter was coming, and we needed a bike to go snowboarding,” they explain. “It should take us to the nearby mountains—there could be snow and it might be off-road at some times.” The Z500 seems like an odd choice, but...

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