Building Custom Motorcycle Seats

Cafe Racer custom seat Brisbane Gold coast upholstery
Motorcycle Seat Upholstery As part of Purpose Built Moto’s commitment to provide our supporters, and customers with a second to none customer experience, and high quality services. We are now providing in house motorcycle seat upholstery and custom motorcycle seat building for our customers on the Gold Coast and Brisbane. The Builds that roll out
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Rebuilding your Cafe Racer Brakes

CX50 custo wheels and 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
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Installing the Flashpoint LED Headlight with integrated turn signals

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Installing the Flashpoint LED Headlight with integrated turn signals Often not thought out until I get to the wiring is the mounting of the indicators/ turn signals on the front of the bike. With that, during the design of the Flashpoint LED headlight, I included matching threads and cable room for use with the Purpose
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Flashpoint LED Motorcycle Headlight

LED lights and accessories custom bike Handmade parts
Flashpoint LED Motorcycle Headlight   As part of Purpose Built Moto’s commitment to supplying high quality parts to our growing community of weekend enthusiasts and commercial garage builders, The LED motorcycle headlight was a natural progression. Aiming to supply a highly functional LED motorcycle headlight that would compliment both the style of your custom bike,
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Installing a 3 button switch on your Motorcycle

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Slim Push 3 Button Switch Installation Guide Here we’ll discuss what’s required when installing your new 3 button switches. This guide serves to aid your installation but things may be slightly different on your custom bike. To learn more about the use and wiring of your push button switches go and check out our motorcycle
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Fitting a Cafe Racer Tail hoop

Fitting a cafe racer tail hoop motorcycle parts
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.

How to build a scrambler motorcycle custom motorbike
Scramblers have exploded recently and with good reason, Whats 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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Installing LED indicators turn signals

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Installing Purpose Built Moto LED Indicators This Article will give you step by step instructions on installing your new Purpose Built Moto LED turn signals / Indicators. As every bike is different this will be a general guide only however I will endeavor to explain as much as I can about the “standard” set ups
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How to make a Café Racer tail cowl

How to make A cafe Racer tail
How to Fiberglass your own Café Racer tail cowl It’s the anchor point on many Café Racer projects, whether you Shape it in foam on the seat, Fiberglass it or shape it out of sheet metal (not a skill I possess) the Café Racer tail cowl can make or break the style of your build.
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How to build a Café Racer seat

DIY cafe racer seat scrambler seat
How to make the perfect Café Racer or Scrambler Seat. “Hey man I have a seat off eBay that should fit my bike but I cant get it right can you fit it for me?” Hell. Fucking. No. A lot of people fall into the trap of the online café racer seat, made specifically for
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