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    DIFFERENT STROKES

    Jan 11, 2017 4 minutes
    WORDS JEFF LAMB PHOTOGRAPHY AJ MOLLER
    “I FOUND MYSELF THE PROUD OWNER OF A MOTORCYCLING CURIOSITY AND A GROWING NUMBER OF RANDOM PARTS”

    I GOT thinking about custom bikes after talking to Leo Yip on the Ellaspede stand at the Troy Bayliss Moto Expo in Brisbane in March 2014. I developed a vague idea of building a cafe racer with an old-school Avon fairing and a GT stripe but not much else, not even a donor bike, when an MZ Skorpion Tour popped up in Sydney on eBay.

    There was always something special about them; the large-diameter tube perimeter frame was a real standout. I didn’t know the MZ brand well but the reviews of the time spoke glowingly of the Skorpion at

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