Motorcycle Leather Hand Grips- and how to make them

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Motorcycle Leather grips – and how to make them. I was building my first bike, and struggling to find a set of decent matching grips. I had a copper orange leather seat, and black everything else. Do I use black rubber? Some horrible orange rubber? Glittery grips? Fuck all that. I wanted something to properly
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Installing a Fender mounted LED brake light

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Fender mounted LED Brake Tail light + indicator install It’s a simple job, and there’s a million ways to do it. But how do you install a fender mounted tail light?  Well this is one way that I’ve used that incorporates a tail tidy/plate mount and a tail light all in one. A quick install
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Rearset install on a Honda CX500

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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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Triumph Sidecar Cafe Racer

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TRIUMPH COLD BREW CAFE RACER SIDECAR – THE “CBCR” The genesis for this project starts like any great Idea. A couple of blokes meeting up for a sun soaked beer at their local haunt, Sandbar in Surfers Paradise. As I rolled up on my 1981 GS550, I was greeted by a couple of mates, Jake
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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

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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, café
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Honda CB350 Four Brat Racer

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1973 Honda CB350 Four Brat Racer   Customizing motorcycles you’ll never get the same job twice. Normally when someone says that, it can be taken 2 ways. Either you enjoy a variety of work, or on the other end you generally have no bloody idea exactly what you’re doing and it’s a nightmare to calculate
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