9 ways to mount your motorcycle fender

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9 ways to mount a café racer motorcycle fender   Building custom motorcycles is a harsh mistress. Go too crazy with your ideas and your clients will be left scratching their heads wondering what the hell you’ve done. Stay too close to the trend and you run the risk of fading into oblivion in a
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Rebuilding a motorcycle engine – Step by Step

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Motorcycle Engine Rebuild How to – A high-level approach by Ian Don of Black Cat Customs In our second installment for the Purpose Built Moto Guest Builder series, we linked up with Ian Don, a mate of mine for a while now who you may recognize from the custom builder documentary “Handcrafted“. Ian is Known
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How to make a DIY motorcycle fender

How to make a motorcycle fender
How to make a motorcycle fender – a guest DIY blog from Keeley Pritchett An initiative I’ve wanted to kick off for a while is the Purpose Built Moto guest builder series. I learn a lot from my customers and friends in the custom motorcycle space, and I wanted you, the garage builders to be
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Nemesis 400 Scrambler Build Series ep 7

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Sol Invictus Nemesis 400 Adventure Bike – How to build an adventure scrambler Ep 7 We’re nearing the home stretch of the Nemesis 400 Scrambler build, there’s some important work to finish before this bad boy rolls out of the garage, then the real adventure begins.  In this episode, I’ll be running through some final
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Nemesis 400 Scrambler Build Series Ep 6

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Sol Invictus Nemesis 400 Adventure Bike – How to build an adventure scrambler Ep6  Here we are back in the workshop for 2020 – new year, same bike. We’ve been hammering our way through fabrication over the last few episodes and we still have a ways to go before this adventure bike is ready
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Nemesis 400 Scrambler Build Series Ep 5

Sol Invictus Nemesis 400 Adventure Bike – How to build an adventure scrambler Ep5 Here we are, episode 5 with no signs of slowing down. I’ve been putting a lot of blood, sweat and tears into this Nemesis 400 Scrambler for our upcoming film project, so if you’ve been enjoying this series head to Instagram
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Cafe Racer swingarm mount license plate bracket

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License plate bracket swingarm mounted – An 8 Step how to I’ve made a lot of these swing arm mounted license plate bracket lately. Like all of these articles I write, I’ll wait until I’m happy enough with my own method to share it with all of you. It takes a few goes to get
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Motorcycle Leather Hand Grips- and how to make them

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Motorcycle Leather grips – and how to make them. I was building my first bike, and struggling to find a set of decent matching grips. I had a copper orange leather seat, and black everything else. Do I use black rubber? Some horrible orange rubber? Glittery grips? Fuck all that. I wanted something to properly
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Rearset install on a Honda CX500

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Installing rearsets on a CX500 Café Racer Rearsets are a staple modification for anyone serious about making their café racer or brat build function properly. When moving the bars down to clip ons, the standard foot peg position will generally have you folded over like a half opened pocket knife. Shifting the foot position back
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How to make a Motorcycle Fork Brace

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Building a motorcycle fork brace for your Custom bike project. Regardless of the legality and practicality of this modification, removing the front fender of your bike is just something people do. Feel free to comment below and tell me how stupid it is. People want it, I’ll do it. That’s the bottom line. Everyone knows
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