Deus ex Machina takes stock motorcycles, looks deep into their eyes and liberates a soul. The idea has its roots in the British café racer culture of the 1950s, but the aesthetic and engineering have moved on a lot since then. Like, there’s another 60 years of time-travelling to pilfer ideas and parts from.

If you can spout every Brough chassis number and the entire racing curriculum of the late Stanley Woods, we’d love to meet you. But if you know zip about motorcycles and want to ask, we’d like to meet you more.