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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Choosing the right custom motorcycle for you
Thursday, 30 April 2020
Guest Post – How to Choose the Best Custom Motorcycle Style For You Choosing a custom motorcycle really sets you out in a crowd. Just owning a motorbike sets you apart from the herd already. But what if you want to stand out from other motorcyclists? Well, of course, you could get yourself a flamboyantly
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1980 Honda CX500 Brat Style Cafe Racer
Friday, 07 February 2020
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 – The Manga Motorcycle
Monday, 25 November 2019
1981 Yamaha XV750 Build – The Manga Inspired Motorcycle 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 Yamaha XV750 motor
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XSR700 LED headlight conversion + LED turn signal upgrade
Sunday, 22 September 2019
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
Tuesday, 30 July 2019
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
Sunday, 21 July 2019
How to Wire + Install LED turn signals on your Motorcycle 9 different ways Wiring LED turn signals on your motorcycle and troubleshooting issues: Lets start with the universal truth of electricity, and the universal way in which to wire your LED lights. Issues will arise with the flash rate on some motorcycles
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