Gold Coast Distinguished Gentlemen’s Ride 2019

This year’s edition of the Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride has come to a close with 300 local motorcycle riders raising over $35,000 which will go towards prostate cancer research and men’s mental health.  The Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride was founded in Sydney and unites classic and vintage style motorcycle riders all over the world to raise funds
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Motosocial 2019

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Unlike last year’s Motosocial that was almost rained out, this year we had an absolutely perfect day for what’s quickly becoming one of the Gold Coast’s most popular motorcycle events. Over 80 bikes and a tonne of bike enthusiasts shut down the Esplanade in Surfers Paradise for the 2019 edition of the Motosocial Ride +
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Steve + Leo: Ellaspede – Handcrafted Motorcycle documentary

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Steve + Leo – Ellaspede : Handcrafted, Australian Motorcycle Documentary Steve + Leo were a couple of the only guys I hadn’t met before filming Handcrafted. I had known of Ellaspede and met a few of the front of house retail and marketing guys, but the people behind the bike design I hadn’t run into
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Ian Don- Black Cat Customs: Handcrafted Motorcycle Documentary

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Handcrafted Custom Bike Documentary: Ian Don- Black Cat Customs   During this series I wanted to talk to the builders that inspire me, In the first 2 years of Purpose Built Moto I was given some amazing opportunities. I’ve worked with Universal store, City Beach Australia, BMW Australia and We Are Explorers on some amazing
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Scott Gittoes: SDG Moto- Handcrafted Motorcycle documentary

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Scott Gittoes – SDG Moto Scott and I met in very much a professional capacity. His family run store SDG moto was interested in selling Purpose Built Moto parts. So we spoke, and on a business trip I dropped in to see him at his workshop on the NSW central coast. 5 minutes after meeting
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Jeremy Tagand: Deus Ex Machina- Handcrafted Motorcycle documentary

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Handcrafted Motorcycle Documentary – Jeremy Tagand- Deus Ex Machina I was in Sydney on a work trip and had been tossing up whether or not I was ballsy enough to go into Deus and pitch them on PBM parts. After deciding “fuck it, I got nothing to lose” I contacted the shop and organized to
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DVMC Sydney – Handcrafted Motorcycle Documentary

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Handcrafted – Matt Bromley- DVMC I had only ever really heard whispers of DVMC around the traps. Until 3 months before the trip Matt Bromley from DVMC remained a mystery to me. All I knew is that Matt, as a bike builder had been around for a long time in different incarnations, there had been
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Brad Miller : Milwerx – Handcrafted Motorcycle Film

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Brad Miller- Milwerx – Handcrafted Custom Motorcycle Documentary Brado and I had built somewhat of a rapport before the filming trip. I remember we had first met at an event in Sydney at Rising Sun Garage. Brad was there to showcase his work on a bike he had built with Matt Darwon of The Machine
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Popbang Classics – Handcrafted Motorcycle Documentary

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Handcrafted Custom Motorcycle Film – Justin Holmes Pop Bang classics   While I was in the throws of building my first bike, the 1981 GS550 that you’re all familiar with, I had a notification pop up on my Instagram. Some guy called Popbang Classics liked the picture of my bike before it was stripped for
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BMW Motor-RAD weekend <- you see what i did there?

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BMW Adventure weekend   This one starts like any other bike story. You go for a Coffee at your local on the bike, speak to a bloke you’ve never met before and he offers you a 3 day weekend as a BMW test rider on their new adventure bike. Pretty standard stuff. The fun started
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