Choosing a platform to start a custom build is fraught – there are no simple answers to the question, “what bike”? New bikes are generally too expensive, too complicated, too modern and too much. The price of classics is getting out of hand, and the price of parts sometimes quite crazy.
So many riders choose cheap bikes, but soon enough they get popular and then prices start to go crazy again… witness what’s happened recently with the Yamaha XV750, Honda CX500 and BMW K 100 – all have gone from being unsaleable junk to ‘project bikes’.
Royal Enfield has noticed this trend and so it’s building bikes which
