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We chat to Ben Rubner, one of the driving forces behind one of Sydney's most beloved motorcycle destinations. Join us as we delve into his journey, his shop, and his unwavering passion for all things motorcycles. 🏍️

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00:00My name's Ben and I'm one of the directors of Zen Motorcycles.
00:06We've been going for a couple years now. Started off as a small workshop
00:11in my other shop in in Green Square. Started it during COVID at a time and was pretty hard.
00:16To get a bit more revenue coming through I just wanted to come up with a another business and
00:21Zen Motorcycles sort of evolved from there. It's grown into what it is now like what you see with
00:27like the showroom we have a nice new workshop and everything. Yeah we came up with Zen and Zen
00:32basically it's a happy place it's our Zen to get on a motorcycle and be free and
00:38it's something that's our passion and our love. I've always had a passion for anything that we
00:42like with an engine anything that not necessarily went fast we all like to go fast but look I've
00:47always had a passion for cars and motorcycles from a young age and my passion then grew into sort of
00:52customizing bikes. I never wanted to always have my own shop obviously worked for other people in
00:57the past and yeah just I guess as I got older I wanted to do my own thing and when
01:03I have my own
01:03shop you can do your own thing and then you share it with like everyone else as well you can
01:08you know
01:09we get people come in all the time that have ideas and and and dreams of doing things for their
01:13particular bikes and we can actually do that for them and we've got the like an awesome space to do
01:18us. Look we do a bit of everything to be honest with you everything from Harley-Davidson's to
01:23cafe races on Japanese bikes obviously now we're into electric bikes too so we'll see where that
01:28takes us in the near future with even customizing with that we've always started with a with a good
01:33base bike so something that's easy to to dismantle everything is there complete and then we can go then
01:39have a discussion with the customer of what steps he wants and how he wants the bike to look so
01:44sometimes we we might custom make a part or you know the customer might have a part in mind that
01:50he wants fitted to the bike which which we're always happy to do as well so it's always a mix
01:55of
01:55everything basically yeah I think the favorite bike that we've got at the moment is this Harley-Davidson
02:01it's a 72 Sportster Harley this particular customer came in and he he wanted the full works he wanted
02:08he didn't want it to be stock basically he wanted an old school filter with a new with a new
02:14drive
02:16train in it basically so something they could hop on it kick it over straight away no worries with it
02:22you know having to flood or the choke whatever all that sort of stuff so he wanted it all chromed
02:27up
02:27looking old school and the way it turned out was like we're we are pretty happy with it and the
02:32customer
02:33was pretty happy with it happy with it as well
02:34you
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