Axel Budde’s work is impossible to miss. His shop, Kaffeemaschine, focuses solely on classic Moto Guzzi models, turning them into elegant machines that are impossibly cool, highly refined, and built to be ridden.
Based in Hamburg, Germany, Kaffeemaschine recently buttoned up this monochromatic charmer for a client who wanted one of the workshop’s signature GT tourer builds, but with a few twists. “He wanted a Kaffeemaschine GT, but a little more in the direction of a scrambler,” Axel explains. “And he wanted most of it black.”
Further to those requirements, Axel’s client asked that the donor bike be the same age as him—so Kaffeemaschine sourced a 1979 Moto Guzzi Le Mans II. With the Le Mans on the bench and an established template to work from, the crew turned their attention to their customer’s most challenging requested…
“The biggest issue was the fuel tank, as he wanted a different design,” says Axel.…