The Straight Street Yamaha Scorpio Cafe Racer. The Yamaha Scorpio is a bike that’s almost been done to death overseas by custom shops. Huge in Indonesia and Deus have had a go at a huge amount of them. Come to Australia and you’re pretty hard pressed to find anyone that’s heard of one. I was

1992 CB 750 Brat style Cafe Racer   This particular bike has been known to me for about 3 years now. It came Into my life when a good mate of mine Sean bought it, this was the guy who gave me the time of day and taught me the welding basics I needed to

Triumph Scrambler- Bonneville T100 Myself and Ty from Night Craft Bobbers 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

James’ 1978 DT400 “Gnar Lord”   James was referred to me from another customer. He had been riding this DT400 scrambler on the family farm since he was a kid. It had been used and abused until it died then was stored and left to age in a shed out near Dalby QLD. He one

Some bikes give their owner’s a certain air of character, other bikes only gain character from their owners. In the case of Locky, the latter is definitely the case. I was contacted by Locky that had seen some pictures of stuff Purpose Built Moto was doing with our parts and custom motorcycles on the Gold

The Final steps are always the most exciting, The Scrambler is taking shape and  you can start throwing sneaky pics to the lads making them jealous. Trying to convince them to join you on your greasy knuckle quest of bikedom. If you missed the first parts in the build series, view them here. Nicks GN250

Cristian from Cocolea Furniture contacted me shortly after the completion of the GS550 Border run. He was after a show piece for his warehouse that complimented his aviator style furniture. While I was apprehensive about building a Café racer that would never see the road, just starting out I had to see it for what

Dylan contacted me after getting a little tired of dwarfing his XV250 daily rider; as a pretty tall guy he needed a little more room to stretch out. He invited me to his great little café tucked away in Burleigh, Lake View Espresso. We had a coffee and the chef cooked me up some amazing

GS550 Border run cafe racer; Purpose Built Moto’s first bike build It’s a dangerous thing when I get bored. Previous outcomes of my boredom over the past few years have resulted in taking a second job, quitting a job and heading overseas, tearing out rooms in my house to renovate, and starting a degree in