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City Slicker

WORDS GEOFF SEDDON

WELL-KNOWN Melbourne bike dealer and workshop Mid Life Cycles built ‘Brass Rajah’ to compete in the inaugural Royal Enfield distributor-backed Custom Bike Build-Off in 2016. Amazingly, it didn’t win, pipped at the post by a build from Sydney, but the consolation prize was making annual Top 10 against the world’s best custom bikes irrespective of style and make. Timeless design then came with its own reward, in the form of a limited run of replicas (four so far, known as ‘TT’s) built to individual

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