Universal DIY Tail Tidy Kit
Wednesday, 27 October 2021
Universal DIY Tail Tidy Kit. There are plenty of Universal tail tidy kits out there, and this one is mine. On the surface it looks like a painfully simple design. It is. However this simple plate of aluminium (or stainless steel) took me 5 years to land on. To Skip the details and get your
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Custom Motorcycle Exhausts – Built in House at Purpose Built Moto
Tuesday, 08 December 2020
With everything we do, Purpose Built Moto is consistently aiming to improve. A natural step in our custom motorcycle fabrication, was to get our hands into building exhausts. In the past we have outsourced these things, but with our provider looking to retire soon, we needed to step it up a gear and push ourselves
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Motorcycle USD Fork Swap – Everything you need to know
Tuesday, 18 August 2020
How we do a USD Fork swap / conversion. USD Fork swaps on motorcycles have become a staple in the custom community. With a bit of work, some careful measurement and a few hours you can completely change the way your bike handles, brakes and looks. Sounds like only positive things can come from this
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Universal Aluminium Motorcycle Fender
Wednesday, 20 May 2020
Style up your front end with a sleek custom motorcycle fender I take pride in going the extra mile when it comes to style meets function on a motorcycle, so I’m stoked to announce the addition of a universal aluminium fender to the Purpose Built Moto online store. This fender is a blank canvas that
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Integrated / Recessed LED brake light cafe racer tail hoop
Wednesday, 13 May 2020
Fabricating a recessed LED strip brake light into the frame This is one I stumbled upon the answer to only recently. When I first started building bikes, I used a few of these LED strip brake lights, just affixed to the tail hoop not recessed in. I then started to get creative with my brake
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9 ways to mount your motorcycle fender
Monday, 30 March 2020
9 ways to mount a café racer motorcycle custom fender Building custom motorcycles is a harsh mistress, a big part of that is mounting your custom fender up. 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
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Step by Step motorcycle engine rebuild
Tuesday, 24 March 2020
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
Wednesday, 12 February 2020
How to make a motorcycle fender – a guest DIY blog from Keeley Pritchett I know a thing or two when it comes to making a motorcycle fender but sometime’s you need an expert. An initiative I’ve wanted to kick off for a while is the Purpose Built Moto guest builder series. I learn a
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Nemesis 400 Scrambler Build Series ep 7
Thursday, 16 January 2020
Sol Invictus Nemesis 400 Scrambler Build 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 touches of fabrication which will include… Mounting
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Nemesis 400 Scrambler Adventure Bike Build Ep 6
Tuesday, 07 January 2020
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 adventure 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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