Honda CB550 Café Racer – Shannons Dream Bike Build.
Monday, 15 May 2023
If you’ve been following the build series for the Honda CB550 Cafe Racer you will no doubt understand just how much work goes into the custom motorcycles we create. This bike wasn’t built for the series, instead it was chosen from our line up of custom jobs we already had in the line up. I
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Shannons Dream Bike Build Episode 6: The Reveal
Sunday, 14 May 2023
Months of work has all led to this episode. You’ve been with us every step of the way, from taking this rust bucket sitting at the back of Honest Dave’s shed, through the huge engine restoration, all the handmade fabrication work, through to paint and final assembly. In this episode we finally got to reveal
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Shannons Dream Bike Build Episode 3: Into the Fab Lab
Thursday, 04 May 2023
Tom and Donny get into the fabrication for the Honda CB550 Café Racer and things are starting to take shape. A lot of fabrication work went into this, and we didn’t hold back on chasing perfection for the Shannons Dream Bike Build. We’ve set the basis for our CB550 café racer build in the previous
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Shannons Dream Bike Build Episode 4: Getting Some Colour
Tuesday, 02 May 2023
The Honda CB550 has it’s base and it’s time for some paintwork. We’re halfway through the Shannons Dream Bike Build, and if you haven’t already head over to their YouTube channel, like, subscribe and comment on the videos to let you know what you think. The end of episode 3 revealed the bones of our
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Honda CB400 Four Café Racer
Thursday, 27 April 2023
Our latest build out of the garage is a Honda CB400 Four Café Racer. We love these Honda Four’s it’s no secret. The rider was stoked with his moody looking super sport café racer. When Will, our client from Victoria got in touch about his Honda CBF400 Four Café Racer and explained the sort of
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2008 Custom Suzuki GSX1400 Racer
Monday, 05 September 2022
We built a Custom Suzuki GSX1400 to be a sibling to one of our most popular motorcycle builds Another behemoth motorcycle rolls into the Purpose Built Moto garage a custom Suzuki GSX1400, this time building for a familiar face. If you’re across any sort of custom motorcycle media, chances are you would have seen
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1983 Honda CX500 – Café Racer Rescue
Thursday, 18 March 2021
The Honda CX500 was what we call a “rescue build”. It’s always a tough job to take on a half completed build. We’ve had it happen before, a deflated customer comes in after a bad experience wanting their dream bike built how they imagined it. The bike they’ve received isn’t up to scratch and now
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Honda CB400F Vintage Café Racer
Tuesday, 10 November 2020
A few years ago I was given the chance to build a great brat styled Honda CB350 four. With its simple layout, and easy to work with styling we were able to create something pretty special for that client. So when Paddy asked me to bring his 1975 CB400F back from the dead I jumped
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Ducati GT1000 Sport Classic Cafe Racer
Friday, 15 May 2020
Signature series Ducati GT1000 Sport Classic The story of this bike is a long one, not only because of the extensive modification we’ve done to this Ducati GT1000 Café racer but because for a long time, I delayed even starting this build. The bike wasn’t sat in my shop dormant but I held off
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Integrated / Recessed LED brake light cafe racer tail hoop
Wednesday, 13 May 2020
Fabricating a recessed LED strip brake light into the frame This is one I stumbled upon the answer to only recently. When I first started building bikes, I used a few of these LED strip brake lights, just affixed to the tail hoop not recessed in. I then started to get creative with my brake
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