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BIKE FEATURE ROYAL ENFIELD BULLET 500
“I BET YOU CAN’T BUILD A BIKE GOOD
ENOUGH FOR THE BIKE SHED SHOW.”
att’s comment not only frame, something which I had
got me all fired up never done before. So, I went out
to prove him wrong, and bought myself a frame jig.
it also produced the After all, what could possibly go
M bike’s name: The wrong? Well, absolutely nothing
Doubter. Not that there was as it turned out. The frame came
a bike to be built at the point together nicely and I stretched
when he threw down that it in length by about five inches
challenge, but I soon rectified over the stock version. I then also
that by buying a 2007 Royal extended the rear swinging arm
Enfield Bullet from a chap in by five inches to give the bike a
Glastonbury. I took it back home long low look. [We suspect that,
to Gloucester where my firm, now he has a jig and has used it,
Howard Street Motors, is based, Cliff will never be satisfied with a
and before you could even say stock frame again and will create his
‘Howard Street Motors’ I’d set own for any future builds! Ed]
about stripping the bike down. While having a wander around
I already had an image in Kempton Park Autojumble, I
my head of what I wanted to came across an old tank which had
build. I never do drawings for the right shape that I had in mind.
a project—I just picture in my I bought it and then cut it in half to
head what I am aiming to build make two tanks. The left side hold
and then I go for it! This is the fuel while the right hand side was
fifth bike that I’ve built but this large enough for me to hide away
time I decided to set myself all the electrics and so give the
a challenge and fabricate the bike a simple and clean look.
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