Rearset install on a Honda CX500
Wednesday, 08 May 2019
by Tom
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
Tuesday, 19 February 2019
by Tom
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.
Monday, 24 December 2018
by Tom
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.
Wednesday, 05 September 2018
by Tom
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
Saturday, 21 July 2018
by Tom
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!
Sunday, 17 June 2018
by Tom
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.
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Best Motorcycle Pod Filters for your Cafe Racer – Purpose Built Moto
Sunday, 19 November 2017
by Tom
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
Wednesday, 18 October 2017
by Tom
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
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Fitting a Cafe Racer Tail hoop
Monday, 24 July 2017
by Tom
Taking a standard subframe and adding a tail hoop has to be the most common modification in the Café Racer/Scrambler/Tracker universe. Often overlooked (I’m guilty as well) is the Issue of rear wheel Suspension travel. For information about other cafe racer parts click here. If you take a Subframe that looks like this: And add
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Scrambler Parts Guide: What you need to get going on your off road build.
Friday, 14 July 2017
by Tom
Scramblers have exploded recently and with good reason, What’s more fun than an awesome looking custom bike that you can thrash through a paddock or down a dirt road? Not much. In my “How to build a scrambler” blog We covered off the step by step process that I use when approaching a bike and
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