Signs Your Carburettor is Blocked and How to Fix it
Wednesday, 01 February 2023
Blocked carburettors are one of the most common issues we see plaguing older motorbikes, or bikes that have just been left standing for a while. Either the bike won’t start, tick over evenly, sputters when you hit the throttle – or all of the above. If there are any riders out there who aren’t
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Royal Enfield GT650 Scrambler Quick Fix
Tuesday, 20 December 2022
The Royal Enfield GT650 scrambler has been gaining in popularity lately. We’ve started seeing them all over the place. I knew it was only going to be a matter of time before we saw one roll into the garage, and here it is. We quite often see a lot of riders that have picked up
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Custom Yamaha SR400 Bobber
Thursday, 15 September 2022
Check out this epic Yamaha SR400 Bobber that I was so excited to work on that ended up a sad story I never got to finish. Creating something different is a hard task with a donor bike as prolific as the SR500 or SR400 Bobber. So when the project rolled into our workshop I was
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Custom Royal Enfield Classic 500
Wednesday, 03 August 2022
Here’s our complete build run down on this custom Royal Enfield Classic 500 and don’t forget to check out the gallery at the end of the blog! This Royal Enfield Classic 500 came to us purely by fate. Most often our clients find us online, or at bike shows. This one walked right up to
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1973 Triumph Bonneville Desert Sled Restoration
Wednesday, 13 July 2022
We finally get a shot at restoring a classic Triumph Bonneville Desert Sled A quick note before we get into the Triumph Bonneville Desert Sled build, if you have a nice old bike, and you want to keep it that way. Make sure you use it! This Desert Sled project I’m about to run you
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2006 Triumph Thruxton Scrambler
Wednesday, 09 March 2022
Our first custom motorcycle for 2022, a 2006 Triumph Thruxton Scrambler With the release of our first wide wheel scrambler in 2021, there was another project in the kitchen that started at exactly the same time – a Carburetted Triumph Thruxton Scrambler 900, the older brother of the Black 2017 T100, . Purchased in Bathurst,
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1998 Harley Sportster Scrambler
Friday, 17 December 2021
Our first Harley Sportster Scrambler made some pretty big waves in the custom world, even more so when we went out and proved it was actually getting ridden for Wide Of The Mark. During that build process Scott visited the shop, saw my Harley Sportster Scrambler on the bench and told me I had to
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Husqvarna Vitpilen 401 Tracker Build EP. 1
Tuesday, 07 July 2020
We had so much fun making our last build series, I though we better do another one. This time around I’ve picked up a Husqvarna Vitpilen 401 that will be the subject of the customisation. During pre-release these bikes caused a stir that echoed through the custom bike world, capturing the attention of a
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Yamaha TW200 Street Tracker
Wednesday, 29 April 2020
Custom Yamaha TW200 Tracker Yes, a TW200 tracker. To be blunt, I wasn’t excited at all when this bike first rolled in the garage. Having been previously built in the Deus beach runner style with the long swingarm and tiny aluminium tank it was less than appealing. There’s a million of these bikes running
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Harley Sportster Scrambler Build Series Ep.5
Tuesday, 24 March 2020
Harley 1200 Sportster Scrambler Episode 5– The Purpose Built Moto YouTube series We’re into the tail end of the Harley Sportster Scrambler build. I’ve put a lot of sweat and creativity into this bike and I can’t wait to show you all what we put it through for the Wide of the Mark project.
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