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up in-demand enough to consider it a career. Every first, and designer after that. Simple, reliable
time we sit around and feel sorry for ourselves for mechanics of the bike come first, then design
our intense schedule, the challenges that face us follows—I have no use for an un-ridable bike.
daily or how hard it’s all been, we come back to the
same point that neither of us actually expected it to Pollock: My philosophy is a product of competition:
go this well ever. make it simpler, faster, lighter, more durable and
trouble-free. Twenty-three years in aerospace gets
Moto Guzzi V50 custom by Revival CyclesFull Size you into the habit of paying attention to even the
The short answer: Follow your passion. And if your smallest details that may never be seen—but I’ll
passion happens to be motorcycles, and you have a know that it’s right. Looking at other builders’ work,
group of supportive and talented people around you, simplicity in solutions is where the real talent is and
and you’re the perfect combination of talented, what I search for. Simple solutions are the biggest
stubborn, willful, influence, followed by
confident and stupid, MotoGP and hot rods.
then perhaps you
can stick through the Stulberg: The balance I
tough times and get try to achieve is a
to some level of self- combination of subtle
sufficiency. elegance and superior
functionality. I’ve found
Wrenchmonkees: that it’s easy to slap
First of all: make together a brightly
your family and colored, bedazzled
friends believe in machine that has fancy
you. Believe in bright paint, knobby
yourself and believe tires, and flagrant
in the decisions you anodized gold-colored
make. Stay humble, accessories to catch
work hard and attention and Internet
maintain your ‘notoriety.’
integrity! Don’t think you can do everything yourself.
Team up with people who are better than you, and On the other hand, it’s also possible for a skilled
don’t think that their strengths are your designer or sculptor to craft a fine piece of well-
weaknesses—just make sure you are on the same proportioned art that will roll down the road OK, but
mission! will certainly never go out and win even the easiest
of races or garner an effortless weekend of carving
Be stubborn and at the same time willing to make up twisties on your favorite switchback road. I
sacrifices—but don’t price your work too low. Then believe it takes a metered, skilled and careful
everything will be OK. (No promises, haha!) approach to combine performance, design and
engineering to actually make a rolling sculpture
What influences your current aesthetic and design simultaneously astound the eyes AND perform better
philosophy? than the average production machine.
Hageman: My influences and designs come from Rogers: We’ve always believed in the mantra that
bikes I remembered when growing up in the ’70s and ‘less is more’. What’s been really interesting over the
’80s—bikes that I would sit and stare at in awe, just last couple of years is the increasing mix of sports
waiting to get my hands on the next issue of the bikes that we’ve been asked to work on—models like
latest motorcycle magazine. I rely on the memories the Triumph 675 and KTM Super Duke have given us
and draw from images left in my head, and work the opportunity to diversify and push the
towards those images that made me smile when I boundaries.
was younger.
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MotorcyclesFull Size Yeh: Cars, bikes, furniture, sculptures—everything
I like to combine those ideas and thoughts with around me that was designed and made by humans
modern technology; I consider myself a mechanic affects me every single day. As my brand Rough
