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Black BEAUTY

EASTERN Spirit Garage is a small custom motorcycle workshop in Starawies, Poland. It has made its name since 2011 building a string of critically-acclaimed café racers, often powered by mid-capacity air-cooled Japanese fours. ESG also took out the worldwide factory-backed Custom Rumble competition for the best custom Ducati Scrambler in 2018.

So this trad-style bobber, built from a Yamaha XS650 vertical twin, represents

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