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Fitting a Cafe Racer Tail hoop

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.

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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Mufflers for your Cafe Racer, Scrambler and Bobber

Getting the right stainless steel muffler for your café racer, scrambler or bobber. Purpose Built Moto has an ever-expanding range of mufflers to help our community of riders and garage builders achieve the custom bike of their dreams. With a custom café racer or scrambler though comes a lot of grey areas for guys with
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Trimming your Cafe Racer’s front fender

Trimming your Cafe Racer, Bobber or Scrambler front fender- get it right, every time. Most Jobs are simple, this means it’s easy to do, but there is a little more to it when you want to do it right. Whether you’re building a café racer, bobber or scrambler cutting your front fender down can add
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Building spoked wheels

Re-lacing and trueing your spoked wheels If you’re chasing a properly vintage look on your project bike, one of the key parts of achieving that is a set of spoke wheels. Chances are on your old bike the spokes are either rusted or heavily weathered. Details matter, so when you have your bike apart strip
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How to build a Scrambler- 8.5 points to keep in mind when building your Scrambler

How to Build a scrambler. Old Bikes…. Everybody loves them, they are outdated, rattly, and perform pretty horribly in comparison to modern motorcycles. Why is it so that you can’t get enough of them? PERSONALITY is the word. They have history, a story and their own little ticks that you grow to love. As things
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Nick’s GN250 Scrambler 2- Fabrication and custom work

Hey internet! If you’ve read our previous post you’ll know we’re sitting just shy of half-way on the GN250 Scrambler build. Up until this point most of our work has been getting our Idea’s together, planning it out and checking a few things over. This is where the spanners come out, your knuckles get greasy
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Nick’s GN250 Scrambler 1- Stripping down and planning the bike build

If  You’ve Read through our run down on the 7 step process we use to Design, Build and finish our bikes. You’ll now have a rough outline of how I’ve been operating to date. Now lets take a more detailed and comprehensive look at those steps it takes to take your Project Bike from a
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How To Build a Cafe Racer Part 2: Your 7 Step Guide To The Perfect Custom Bike

OK,  by now we have a pretty good idea of the direction your Project Bike is heading in. Steps 1-4 if done properly will hopefully make the tail end of your custom motorcycle build nice and simple, and if it isn’t you’ll have the knowledge of your bike to handle it anyway. If you missed

How To Build A Cafe Racer: Your 7 step guide to the perfect custom motorcycle

I have a steady flow of emails coming in from all over with motorcycle enthusiasts always asking that one fateful question. I want to build a Cafe Racer – where do I start? So this one’s for the Weekend warrior, the garage builder, the first timer and the guy who got sick of his characterless