You may never have heard of Rajputana Customs but I’m guessing you’ll be hearing a lot more about them over the coming years. Based in India, Rajputana Customs build custom hardtails around Royal Enfield engines, they show clear influence from builders like Falcon Motorcycles and Deus Ex Machina but they also have a distinct personality of their own.
This bike is called Nandi, Rajputana have turned out 2 other bikes so far called Lightfoot and Original Gangster, all the bikes use Royal Enfield thumpers, a smart choice for an India based bike builder. The owner of Rajputana Customs, Vijay, is an Indian national who went to college in Canada, before returning to his native Jaipur to set up the Rajputana garage ( after convincing his parents it would be a good idea).
Vijay is currently working on a 1942 BSA M20 500cc and is then moving onto another custom chopper using a Royal Enfield 500cc engine by the end of the month. This is one garage we’ll be keeping a very close eye on.
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Lloyd Brothers Motorsports have been building some of the quickest flat trackers in the world for over 25 years, but this project wasn’t built for dirt oval competition, it was built as a father son project by company co-founder (and Dad) David Lloyd, and his son James. The Beginning The project began with a 1987 Honda…
This article was written by Walt Siegl of Walt Siegl Motorcycles – when possible we like to bring you the story of a motorcycle in the words of the person who built it to cut out the middleman, giving you unfettered access to their thought process and methods. It was a natural progression from building…
The Ducati 750 Sport is an exceedingly rare motorcycle that sits squarely between its two more famous siblings – the Ducati 750 GT and the Ducati 750 Super Sport (SS). Put simply, the Ducati 750 Sport (also known as the 750S) was a higher-performance version of the slightly more consumer-friendly 750 GT.
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Cytech Motorcycles have been organizing African motorcycle expeditions since the mid-1970s, they’ve only ever used BMWs because of their legendary toughness and reliability, and over the decades they became one of the largest BMW dealerships in Southern Africa. The company is largely a family affair, Donovan does much of the hands on work with his…
