Written by Martin Hodgson
It’s hard to think of a more Australian story; two young Europeans on motorbikes meet in the car park of Bunnings Hardware and over the obligatory ?snag? they form a friendship that brings them together to build a custom motorbike from the remains of a freebie found abandoned and wrecked in Bondi. To add some extra sauce, they entered the bike in the builder’s competition at the Machine Show knowing they only had months left on the clock. But Sydney’s Sabotage Motorcycles always had it under control and infused their love of art to create a 1972 Yamaha RD125 2 stroke racer masterpiece.

For those that don’t know Australia is largely made up of people originally from foreign lands, Bunnings is the countries largest chain of hardware stores, a snag is a sausage fresh off the BBQ and Bondi is home to the beach and backpackers were many a tourist and new arrival come to soak up the well-sold myth of Australiana. Giles and Andy are the two men behind Sabotage and in addition to bike building have also brought the world of art into the mix, resulting in events like their Twenty/20 exhibition of hand painted vintage helmets.
?…with a seized crank from all the salty air and rain that had been pouring into the open cylinder heads.?
But as Giles tells it, this racer build started with finding the Yamaha in a rather unusual way, ?It had been dumped at the back of an apartment block in Bondi, and a friend was on the strata co...