This is the bike Shinya Kimura dreamt up when Brad Pitt asked him “what are you going to make me next?”.

Built around a mid-1970s Ducati 750, the polished metal machine – whose price is a closely guarded secret - looks like it’s been ridden straight from a steampunk movie.

It marries 1970s technology with style influences from the Victorian era – so, for instance, the speedo has a brass surround and the body work is exposed metal.

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