1980 Honda CX500 Brat Style Cafe Racer

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If you follow Purpose Built Moto on Instagram, this bike would have been known to you for a long time now. Luke has been a fan and a mate of the shop for years. Finding us on social media and quickly making himself known to us. The Honda CX500 was a relatively nice motorcycle when
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1981 Yamaha XV750 Build – The Manga Inspired Motorcycle

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Yamaha’s XV750 are a very popular donor for a custom bike, cheap to get a hold of and the market of bolt-on parts you can get is pretty amazing. My client James had started to do a few bits on his freshly rebuilt XV750 motor but soon felt help was needed. He came into the
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XSR700 LED headlight conversion + LED turn signal upgrade

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DIY LED Headlight + LED turn signal upgrade for Yamaha XSR700 and XSR900 The extremely popular Yamaha XSR700 and XSR900 have become a favourite with garage builders to customise, and one of my most asked questions is will the Purpose Built Moto LED headlight work with the XSR700 headlight brackets? The answer is yes, however
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Ducati Sport Classic Cafe Racer – Restyled

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Ducati GT1000 Sport Classic Café Racer The GT1000 was released before its time, had it been a few years later the market would have lapped up these beefy 1000cc modern classics. But they didn’t, and Ducati stopped making them which means some models are getting to be in high demand. Some of us we’re however,
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9 ways to install LED turn signals on your motorcycle

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How to Wire + Install LED indicators on your Motorcycle 9 different ways LED indicators are one of the most common modifications on any motorcycle. It’s usually simple, and cheap to do, and will have a great effect on how your custom motorbike looks. That’s why we’re all here isn’t it? To make our motorcycles
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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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