Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride 2022 Wrap Up + Photo Gallery
Monday, 13 June 2022
We wrapped an awesome weekend for the Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride 2022, a Motosocial event hosted in collaboration with the legends at Miami Marketta. With the initial date for Gentlemans ride postponed due to bad weather, GC riders we’re treated to an epic day showcasing the best of the Gold Coast motorcycle community. As you could
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Wide of the Mark – Tasmania Destination 2
Friday, 15 May 2020
Wide of the Mark Destination 2 Wide of the Mark had already thrown some challenges at us in the first few days forcing us to really learn about our bikes and how the performed in some pretty tough terrain. A big learning curve for the ride group, and a good picture of what was to
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Wide of the Mark – Tasmania Destination 1
Monday, 04 May 2020
Wide of the Mark Destination 1 Adventure ride from Bellingham to Bridport You can check out more BTS info at Wideofthemark.com.au Arriving to a cool morning in Devonport Tasmania, our company of 5 riders are on our way to pick up our last rider Max from Akin Moto. Max is waiting in Launceston and his
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Wide of the Mark – A motorcycle adventure film
Friday, 03 April 2020
Wide of the Mark – A motorcycle adventure documentary Wide of the mark was created out of a hunger for a motorcycle adventure in its purest form. Mixing the things I love most in life, and throwing them out into the wilderness. We built adventure bikes out of every day commuters to handle harsh
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BMW Motor-RAD weekend <- you see what i did there?
Tuesday, 04 September 2018
BMW Adventure weekend This one starts like any other bike story. You go for a Coffee at your local on the bike, speak to a bloke you’ve never met before and he offers you a 3 day weekend as a BMW test rider on their new adventure bike. Pretty standard stuff. The fun started
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Custom Culture on the Gold Coast
Tuesday, 03 October 2017
Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride 2017 Gold Coast What’s better than jumping on your bike and going for a ride? Maybe putting on a suit for a bit of a laugh and going for a ride? What about doing just that with nearly every rider in your city? Maybe you should sign up for the Distinguished
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Triumph Scrambler 1.0
Wednesday, 26 April 2017
Triumph Scrambler- Bonneville T100 Ty from Night Craft Bobbers and myself had been talking about projects we were doing separately for some time before deciding to put our heads together on a Triumph Scrambler project. It was a bit outside their normal scope of LAMs approved Bobbers but they were keen to get their hands dirty
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The rise of vintage and classic motorycles
Tuesday, 14 February 2017
Why are Classic bikes so popular? Given the field of watered down, forgettable options available to new riders it’s no real surprise that the classic styles of Café racers, Scramblers, Trackers and Bobbers have been making big waves in the motorcycle community in recent times. In this post I’ll give you my take on why
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Eat, Ride, Whiskey, Sleep, Repeat.
Wednesday, 04 May 2016
The Bearded Chap recently Posted a Blog on how the idea of Purpose Built Moto came to be. Below is the story told by yours truly of my amazing ride down the West Coast of America. I had always loved motorcycles, growing up riding dirt bikes, watching my dad leave with his mates on weekend trips,
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