Talking custom motorcycles with award-winning designer Max Hazan
LOS ANGELES - Max Hazan has become, at only 35 and with dizzying speed, one of the custom motorcycle industry's most admired bespoke bike builders. But he only turned his head to design after a motorcycle injury sidelined him for several months.
The accidental artist: Hazan wasn't aiming for the artistic life. The New York native and son of a third-generation garment manufacturer had low expectations for himself.
He chose to attend Tulane University in New Orleans "because it was warm all the time and it was a party town," majored in psychology "because it seemed easy and that's where all the pretty girls were," and took a carpentry job on Long Island "because the money was
