Auto Fabrica

About Auto Fabrica

Auto Fabrica is the workshop of brothers Bujar and Gazmend “Gaz” Muharremi in Southend-on-Sea, east of London. The two started out in a single garage in 2011: they wanted to ride a motorcycle that couldn't be bought, and that they couldn't have afforded anyway. In 2013 it became a company. Both studied industrial and automotive design and worked in design studios, and it shows in the bikes: form and function are meant to balance, and no part is mere decoration. Every build starts with a hand sketch and goes through CAD, prototypes and fabrication to the finished motorcycle, all under one roof. Typical of Auto Fabrica are tank and seat made in one piece, hand-formed from aluminium on the English wheel. Frames are lightened and stripped of unnecessary brackets, engines fully rebuilt, exhausts hand-bent from stainless steel or titanium and wiring looms rebuilt. Newer projects add CNC-machined parts and 3D-printed components. The bikes have numbers instead of names: from the Type 1 on a Kawasaki GT550 to the Type 26 on a Honda CB750. In between are builds on the Yamaha SR250, SR500, XS650 and XSR900, Honda CX500, BMW R80, R nineT and K100, Triumph Bonneville, Norton Commando and Moto Guzzi Le Mans. The Type 6 made the cover of the second volume of the book “The Ride”, the Type 18 was an official project with BMW Motorrad and the Type 11 was built with Yamaha. Alongside customer commissions, the workshop builds its own projects to push its limits.

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Auto Fabrica at a glance

Auto Fabrica is a custom motorcycle workshop in Southend-on-Sea. It has been in business since 2013. Its main styles are Café Racer, Bobber and Scrambler. Services include Full custom build, Welding, CNC milling, Wiring & electrics and Engine rebuild. Favourite base bikes are Yamaha, BMW, Honda, Triumph, Kawasaki, Norton and Moto Guzzi. On MotoDigital, Auto Fabrica shows 6 custom bikes, for example “Yamaha XS750 Type 11 Prototype Three” and “Yamaha XSR900 Type 11 Prototype Two”.

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