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Well, I can show you how one bloke built his own and you can do your best to replicate. There are few things that get me more excited than a featherweight, rippable cafe racer. In the past, we've featured bikes like Drake McElroy's CR250 cafe, Wrenchmonkee's RD400 and two of Roland Sand's builds; a KTM 530 cafe and another clean KTM 525.
I discovered another stunning custom KTM supermoto-to-cafe conversion a few weeks ago. I've been sitting on this waiting to pull a post together, lagging I admit. I woke up last Saturday morning to see that Return of the Cafe Racers had beat me to breaking the story. Though I wasn't the first, I feel obligated to share because it's just too damn cool.
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Australian professional drifter Nigel Petrie is really a car guy. He claims to spend all day thinking about cars (not bikes like most of us). He runs a blog 'Engineered to Slide' that's dedicated to automotive drifting and is an active competitor in the sport. Nigel wanted something fun to tear around town on two wheels.
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Growing up riding BMX and motocross, he got the best motorcycle he could find that he could drift with. He landed on a 2008 KTM 250EXC-F. After riding it on and off road for a few years, he decided one day that the bike needed a facelift. Being quite handy with the welder, in three weeks he cranked out this custom KTM cafe that could still perform like a beast but look like a beauty.
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