Nicola Martini is known as Mr. Martini in the custom bike world, and he built a Harley-Davidson Softail Cafe Racer out of an HD Fat Boy.
When most people think Fat Boy, they don’t think cafe racer. The Softail model is a cruiser best known for its solid cast wheels and badass attitude.
This transformation is a striking one and shows just how versatile the Fat Boy can be in the right hands.
Martini started with a 1998 Harley-Davidson Fat Boy and then turned that bike into a cafe racer. Martini nicknamed the bike Gnews, which is a reference to the unheard-of nature of this machine.
BikeBound did a killer interview and write-up on the bike. I highly suggest you head over there and check it out.
If you’d like to learn more about Mr. Martini, click here. All images you see here and in the BikeBound article were shot in studio by Michelangelo Agostinetto. You can check out his Instagram to see more.