At the Custombike-Show 2014 held at the beginning of December, world’s biggest trade fair for customized bikes organized annually in Germany, Polish company Game Over Cycles won in one of the categories of the show – the event’s main contest for the best bikes presented at the fair. Created by Polish workshop Cheyenne Bike, “The Recidivist” was honoured with the “Best Paint/Airbrush” award.

Cheyenne Bike’s “The Recidivist” is a motorcycle created in devotion to the traditions of the modern motorcycle industry and the human culture of the artistic world of tattoos. Motorbikes are commonly adorned with tattoo motifs using an airbrush; however, the uniqueness of “The Recidivist” lies in the fact that the bike’s entire construction is covered in tattooed skin branded directly onto the bike’s tyres, tanks, seat, rear fender, lamp and many other smaller elements.

Light coloured cow hide leather – similar to the colour of human skin – is engineered onto the bike. Two Polish tattoo artists, Tomasz Lech from Individuum tattoo studio and Krzysztof Królak from Steel Will Tattoo-Factory applied traditional works of tattoo art onto the bike. All of that makes “The Recidivist” the world’s first tattooed motorycle. The bike had its premiere in September 2014 at the London International Tattoo Convention – the most prestigious body adornment convention in the world.

Photo Credits: Tomasz Pulsakowski