HIGH-PERFORMANCE ATTACHÉ

CELL PHONES DON’T WORK IN RURAL NEW HAMPSHIRE, which is fine with Walt Siegl after 20 years of living and working in New York City. He’s nearly off the grid—and out of the hubbub where he founded Walt Siegl Motorcycles—but hardly out of the limelight. His career arc is definitely unique, from art-school dropout in Austria, to part-time endurance racer in France, to tool-making engineer in Germany, to project manager in the Soviet Union, to Austrian cultural attaché in NYC, finally landing on two wheels as a career, after decades of building bikes for fun. His was a long journey from the center of the world to a quiet 18th century mill complex, and his life story makes Siegl a fascinating and worldly character, carrying a lifetime of experience into his work designing motorcycles.

WALT SIEGL MOTORCYCLES WAS QUICKLY RECOGNIZED AS A TOP-TIER CUSTOM SHOP, WITH A SUPER-CLEAN, SOPHISTICATED DESIGN AESTHETIC WORTHY OF AN ART GALLERY…

Growing up in Austria, both his father and grandfather were daily riders on Puchs, Horexes, NSUs, and Harley- Davidson flatheads. Young Walt absorbed their talk about how bikes looked and how they made them feel. “When I was six, a local