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TWO'S COMPANY

WHEN you’re on a good thing, stick to it. So obsessed was Tom Moose with V-twin Yamaha café racers, when his workload as a lawyer in Gydnia, Poland, got in the way of his first attempt at building a custom XV920 as a hobbyist, he chucked in his day job to take up bike building full-time.

We liked his style so much that his first custom off the rank graced our cover (‘White Knight’) back in issue #35. It and its black-finished twin featured inside were built in the café racer style,

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