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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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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Honda VFR750 Retro Racer
Thursday, 17 September 2020
1994 Honda VFR750 Retro Racer The Honda VFR750 project was new ground for Purpose Built Moto. Taking a mid 90’s track day staple, stripping it down and rebuilding it in our vision of a retro throwback racer. Of course we couldn’t stay too true to form with any particular sub-genre of track bike, instead choosing
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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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