To say that Winston Yeh likes the color black would be a gross understatement. The man behind Taiwan’s Rough Crafts has a sense of style that would make Johnny Cash’s wardrobe blush, and seldom builds a custom motorcycle that isn’t swathed in various shades of black.
We checked; a mere 10 percent of the Rough Crafts bikes featured on our pages buck this trend. So when Mr. Yeh does deviate from this formula, it’s usually for a good reason—like a special request from a client.
“He wanted an old school chopper, he wanted it silver, and he wanted the ‘Rough Crafts’ style,” says Winston of the succinct brief he received for the project. The only other request was that Rough Crafts use a modern bike as a donor so that reliability wouldn’t be an issue.…