There are workshops that seek to reinvent their approach on every project they undertake, while others develop a signature style over time and stick to it. Axel Budde’s Kaffeemaschine belongs to the second category, but this doesn’t mean that his firm’s portfolio is repetitive in any way.

On the contrary, these Hamburg-based moto connoisseurs are fully determined to infuse each build with a distinct personality of its own while maintaining a relatively consistent design language across the board. Axel and his crew operate in a sizeable 3,550 square-foot (330 sqm) workspace, where they breathe life into some of the raddest custom motorcycles in existence.

As you might already know, Kaffeemaschine doesn’t aim to be a jack of all trades but a master of one. The firm’s brand of choice has always been Moto Guzzi, with donors like the iconic Le Mans III and 850 T being their favorite platforms to work on. However, the bike we’re about to inspect isn’t based on either of these candidates.

In its previous life, this classy piece of machinery was a bone-stock 850 T3 developed for the 1980 model-year. The very first iteration of Guzzi’s nameplate debuted in 1975 when the House of Mandello del Lario deemed it necessary to equip the esteemed 850 T with triple disc brakes.

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