Wayne Buys operates FabMan Creations out of his South African garage. The master metal worker lives up to the billing too, fabricating custom exhausts and bodywork for Guzzis to Buells to Hondas. The accomplished builder already has a handful of custom motorcycle projects to his name, but his latest creation certainly pushed Buys’ metal manipulating skills and creativity to the limit.
When a customer commissioned FabMan to turn a BMW R nineT into an aviation-inspired custom, the South African builder didn’t take the easy route. Instead, he aimed for the fences, hand-crafting retro-futuristic bodywork from sheets of aluminum. What’s most impressive is that Buys designed the entire build without the aid of sketches, templates, or digital renders. Only using a homemade English wheel and a distinguishing eye, FabMan’s freeform method paid off, resulting in a vision in aluminum which he refers to as the “Storm”
