The value of an object isn’t always measured in monetary terms, as Arnaud Cailly learned when his workshop was broken into—and his beloved Kawasaki KLX300 stolen. “That Kawa wasn’t worth much, but it meant a lot to me,” he recalls. “I kept it in good shape for the occasional ride with my dad.”
Arnaud runs Le Cent Vingt Cinq out of Thoiry, a town just west of Versailles, France. He started the workshop during the COVID-19 pandemic, when France’s lockdown prevented him from working as a physiotherapist (his main source of income).
Le Cent Vingt Cinq has grown to a three-man team over the last few years. And although they’ll customize just about anything, they have a particular proclivity for pre-2000s Japanese motorcycles.…