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Cafe Racer swingarm mount license plate bracket

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

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

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

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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Cafe Racer Parts Guide: What parts you need for your project build.

Table Of Contents: Custom Seats Cowl Headlights & Tail Lights Bars Rear Set Pegs Tyres Speedo / Tacho Custom Exhaust & Mufflers Electronics & Switches Air Filters Suspension Triple Clamp Spokes Custom Tank Setting out on a project bike is an exciting time. Whether you’re going it alone or having someone do the work for
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Ducati Scrambler- The simple DIY tail tidy.

Ducati Scrambler Tail Tidy- How to No matter where you are in the world, the standard tail fender on your Ducati Scrambler will look horrible. Over engineered beyond belief to comply with import regulations or local vehicle requirements, the last thing on the designer’s mind was how it looks. The tail piece serves a purpose
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The best Scrambler mirrors and how to make them

In my time I’ve built a host of scramblers, and as happy as I was with them. There was one part that I was never truely satisfied with… The Mirrors! What do you do for scrambler mirrors!? Any off the shelf components don’t fit right, off road style mirrors are horrible fold away plastic garbage
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How to fit bar end mirrors to a cafe racer….Properly!

How to fit café racer bar end mirrors. This one will be close to many peoples heart. Ever bought some bar end mirrors and had them either come loose or completely fall off during a ride? Me too, a lot. So I decided to re-think how their fitted in an attempt to better secure these things.

DNA Universal Pod Filters

Air Filters for your Café Racer Motorcycle Air Filters are a staple on any custom bike. From Café Racers to Street Trackers and all in between removing the air box and replacing it with some high-performance air filters is high up on most builder’s priority list. At Purpose Built Moto we like to make our
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Rebuilding your Cafe Racer Brakes

Rebuilding your Brake Calipers   Your custom bike looks epic, you’ve just got the paint back, and had your rim’s and hubs done too. You may have even splashed on some new spokes and having the rim re-laced. Time for re-assembly and test riding! It would be a shame if after 2 weeks you had