What were you doing in the first decade of the 2000s? Whether you can remember it or not, we're going to guess that your activities didn't involve sourcing a Ferrari F355 engine to power the custom motorcycle that you were dreaming up in your head. That is, unless your name is Birger Hansen and you live in Denmark.
As he tells the story, he and his buddy Michael Anderson were drinking one day and chatting, as you do. Somewhere in the course of conversation, they started musing along the lines of "wouldn't it be crazy if we built something that no one has ever tried before?"