Walt Siegl Motorcycles

Walt Siegl designs high-performance motorcycles using classic design elements.

Every WSM motorcycle is hand-built in Walt’s New Hampshire workshop with unwavering commitment to both performance and style.

When Walt was 19, he dropped out of art school in his native Austria to join a road racing team. He later worked in France as a shunter in a train yard and as a toolmaker and welder in Germany, Austria and Italy. A job with an Austrian steel company took him to Moscow, where he eventually joined the Austrian Foreign Service.

In 1985 he was transferred to New York City for a position promoting contemporary Austrian art and culture for the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Walt spent his free time building motorcycles for himself and friends out of a basement across the river in Long Island City.

In 2007 he moved his workshop and his family to an old mill town in southern New Hampshire to build motorcycles full time.

Source Walt Siegl Motorcycles

Brian O’Neill, Walt Siegl, and Aran Johnson