Written by Martin Hodgson | Photos by Nic Walker
Over the years we’ve noticed a common trend here at Pipeburn; some of the best workshops around the globe, large and small, have their origins in friendships formed over a love of motorcycles. Australia’s Sabotage Motorcycles is one such story, it began in the car park of a hardware store when two men met on their ’70s Honda’s and have gone on to produce some show stopping custom rides. Now they’re back with a truly unique creation, artistically formed by the pairs talented hands and lucid imaginations. It’s a 1926 Douglas EW with power from a little engine by the big H, to deliver one beautiful board tracker!

If you don’t know the Douglas name, don’t worry, they sadly closed their doors more than sixty years ago. But over a 50 year stretch beginning in 1907 the British company was one of the most innovative motorcycle manufacturers of their time. Indian, Harley and others copied their creations to produce their own lightweight machines, Douglas was the first to focus on a low centre of gravity for handling and were running a flat twin in the first decade of the 20th century.
The men behind Sabotage, Andy and Giles, would begin to uncover more of the rich Douglas history during the build, but it all started with a late night eBay parts search. ?We stumbled across a guy in Adelaide selling a bare frame of a 1926 Douglas EW350. Just the frame, nothing else. But what we loved ab...