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Mufflers for your Cafe Racer, Scrambler and Bobber

Discover the perfect stainless steel muffler for your café racer, scrambler, or bobber at Purpose Built Moto. Learn about exhaust sizing, back pressure, and how to enhance your bike's performance...

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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...

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How to build a Scrambler- 8.5 points to keep in mind when building your 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 Everybody loves them, they are outdated, rattly, and perform pretty horribly in comparison to modern motorcycles.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...

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Motorcycle Electrics 101- Re-wiring your Café Racer or Bobber Project

Instructions and diagrams for re-wiring your Cafe Racer. If you are planning on re-wiring your Cafe Racer and don't know where to start, grab a seat. Hopefully you’ve seen our...

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Motorcycle Electrics 101 – a simple explanation of your bikes electrics

A lot of people can handle some minor component replacement. When you’re going a bit deeper on a custom bike ie. replacing the sub-frame, removing the airbox and side covers...

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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...

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