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Picture the scene…. it’s autumn, your hands (& other bits too) are getting somewhat chilled by the changing climate and your extremities are always the first ones to be affected. So, you wear thicker clothing, but that doesn’t deflect the wind, just barrier it to an extent. For your hands (which are jolly important for a variety of reasons), you can fit heated grips, but they only warm your palms, rather than the whole hand.A good set of handguards, however, deflect wind and rain, and …

OK, so at some point in a custom build, you’ll more than likely change your headlight. It may be for reasons of vanity – a large, imposing headlight with, say, a mesh or prison style grill really makes your bike in the same way as a set of wheels does on a car. It may be because you’ve had an accident, or bought a bike half way through its project build and the guy’s run out of money to finish it. However, changing the headlight catalyses other areas of improvement on your front end and to …

Would you believe it?....As the summer winds down and we look to people’s builds over August/Winter, we’ve seen demand for some new and different styles of scrambler seats. These will be on our website & in stock over the next short while. They’ll share the same carcass as our existing scrambler seats, but sport a different and distinctive design.Also, we’ve got some new petrol tanks coming our way in 3 different and distinctive designs. They’ll include a lockable filler cap, fuel filt …

Parts are steadily selling and we’re seeing a demand for smaller items, like switchgear sell in big numbers, as it’s a last-minute product that you may need if, say, you’re building an older bike that needs its electrics modernised. Keep an eye on our website for new switchgear coming through, as we’ve had a dearth of it recently.Also, we’ve got some new vinyl throw-over saddlebags with matching rollbag coming into stock over the next few weeks which promise to be very well made, functional and …

Here’s a mere snippet of what we saw at last weekend’s Bikeshed Show at Tobacco Docks…. Retro was really a heavy theme this year, with a lot of classic-looking bikes on display, yet beautifully-made and to a very high standard. The level goes up year on year and some of the bikes on display this year were outstanding. Funnily enough, sports bikes had an unusually large presence this year, and of course there was a healthy diet of scramblers and café racers. It was also good to see s …