I decided to customise my Royal Enfield Bullet 500 into a bobber style with a meagre budget of less than a grand. I did everything from the engine rebuild to the respray and artwork on the tank.
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- 24 December 2012
Just thought I would share a few more pictures since the bike's finished now. I managed to get a few hours riding it at the weekend and it's a good laugh.
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- 23 July 2012
It's not quite finished yet but here's what I've been working on for the past couple of months. It started out as a fairly scruffy Aprilia RS250 which I stripped, cleaned, serviced, MoT'd etc. I added the RS body work, pipes and carbon bits from Jap4performance, and then set about painting it. I don't have a workshop so all this was done in the back ...
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- 10 July 2012
Adam Kay wanted a machine that could be ridden every day and look as cool as any custom - and his R80/7 midlife crisis embodies that perfectly. The donor bike is a BMW R80/7 with a 1978 engine and the frame and forks are from the '81 model. Here's how the project got started, in Adam's own words: "I needed help and I ...
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- 10 November 2010
MCN reader Tony Hartfield used to own a Triumph Street Triple R, but he found it a bit lacking in certain areas. So he decided to build his own version, based on a new 2009 Triumph Daytona 675. Find a Street Triple for sale The result is a Street Triple R with a kick because it's powered by a full-on 126bhp ...
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- 27 January 2010
Thought your readers might be interested in seeing my (Final Edition) XT500 Supermoto. You exhibited my phase 3 model on your stand at the Excel Show in London last year. Bike weighs 110KG wet and produces 50bhp at the rear wheel. There are 16 pre-set ignition advance curves. Deemed to be the most powerful XT500 ever built. Regards Dave Newitt (www.yamaha-xt500.com)
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- 14 December 2009
This special Ducati Hypermotard from Red Dog Superbikes was built for a new film called 'Fight Back', set to star Vinnie Jones and Danny Dyer. Find a Ducati Hypermotard for sale Read the Ducati Hypermotard review To compliment the one-off graffiti paint job, the Red Dog Hypermotard is covered in carbon - the rear hugger, engine casing, side panels, tank cover and mudguard ...
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- 09 December 2009
Film-maker Matthieu Ferreira's has sent us this video of his latest streetfighter project and we think the documentary is very nicely done... Watch part 1 & 2 of the video in the player below to see them convert a Triumph Thunderbird Sport and Daytona into a Streetfightered, cafe-racer-style machine.
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- 20 November 2009
In the April 15 issue of MCN, you had a picture of a homemade Ducati Streetfighter at Cadwell Park in the readers pics section - perhaps I can clear up any mystery! The rider in question is Jamie Green of Ducatitours. I has the pleasure of meeting Jamie when my wife and I went to Italy the week before Easter for ...
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- 21 April 2009
A group of fashion students have designed 3 one-off Monster 696s in conjunction with Ducati and Puma. Find a Ducati Monster 696 for sale Students Abigail Briggs, Charlotte La Roche, and Laura Mackness are from Central Saint Martins Art College. They were invited to create unique graphics based on each of their graduate collections and transform the Monster 696s into design objects. Read the full ...
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- 01 April 2009
