Built by Mark Atkinson – North Salt Lake, UT

If there is a “vaporware” star in the custom motorcycle design scene, it is Mehmet Doruk Erdem—a Turkish industrial designer whose computer-generated motorcycle studies spread quickly on the internet. His sketches are so convincing it is difficult to tell whether they are photographs of real objects. Erdem’s designs typically remain images, but his “BMW Alpha” concept became reality via a Bonneville Salt Flats regular named Mark Atkinson, a dedicated professional machinist and motorcycle builder in Utah who saw the promise of Erdem’s design.

Style: Salt flats racer
Original Manufacturer: BMW
Year & Model: 1991 K75
Frame: Custom-fabricated
Bodywork: Handmade carbon fiber
Motor: BMW K75
Exhaust: Custom stainless steel