If you’re going to name your custom-bike-building side hustle ‘Atomic Contraptions,’ the machines that you create better be imaginative enough to warrant a second look. Judging by this custom BMW R65, Andrew Knott has no trouble in that department. Laced with wooden details, and with a subtle steampunk influence that avoids clichés, this café racer is as curious as it is clean.
Based in Hobart, Tasmania, Andrew’s main gig is as a designer and photographer. But he’s also a motorcyclist and a compulsive tinkerer, so custom motorcycles were always written in his stars.
“My first project was a little old 73 CB350 that I bought just to tear down and put back together again, as an exercise in mechanical education,” Andrew tells us.…