Welcome to the website for Chris Hennegan and Pilgrim Works
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The Fine Art of Motor Cycling
Chris Hennegan is the motorcycle designer behind some of the most globally recognisable bikes of the last 20 years. Several of them have joined the exclusive list of models that have been described as iconic.
Aside from this, he has a particular passion for flat tankers of the 1920s… and a tendency to talk to people about this until they begin to lose the will to live…
In addition to the design and engineering of motorbikes inside main-stream industry, Chris has in recent years been building some interesting one-off specials under the banner of Pilgrim Works with the intention of blending engineering and design with an emphasis on craftsmanship. He has also returned to his original roots in finding more time out-of-hours for pursuing his interest in art, particularly sculpture.
Motorcycling in the 1920s
Those ancient flat tankers were young once…
Fine Art Sculpture
People and motorcycles of the 1920s, frozen in time and captured in bronze
The flat tanker holds a particular place in the history of the motorcycle. A singular point in the process of evolution, which lasted for almost the full decade of the twenties and from which, by 1929, everything was set to splinter again into a myriad of forms.
Motorcycling has seen no other period like it before or since.
(But, that said, strangely coincidentally, today we stand at the very verge of the next moment of seismic change…)
The Pilgrim Precision
The fine art of the Flat Tanker
Chris Hennegan
25 years of motorcycle design
