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I WAS looking for the next build to do with my dad, and wanted to use everything we had learnt from three earlier custom postie builds. BMW had recently released the R7-inspired kit for the R NineT, and I thought it was the most incredible bike I had ever seen … until I saw the original R7 concept bike from 1934! I decided I had to have one, or at least something that represented the look.

The Postie Bike Nationals were nine months away, so we had a deadline. I have a garage full of CT110 parts, so

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