This is a 2021 Royal Enfield Interceptor 650 that was built into a Spitfire-inspired cafe racer. It won the Best Cafe Racer 2023 award at the Custom Show Emirates and it’s now being offered for sale.

Despite its vintage looked, the Royal Enfield Interceptor 650 model series was released in 2018. It’s a part of the modern classic motorcycle genre that was spearheaded by the Triumph Bonneville back in the late 1990s.

Royal Enfield was founded in England in 1901 though the company can trace its lineage far further back in time, to companies that supplied everything from sewing needles and pens to bicycles and firearms.

From the turn of the 20th century to the outbreak of WWII, Royal Enfield grew to become one of the biggest motorcycle manufacturers in Britain. The Royal Enfield Bullet, a simple, single-cylinder model, would become the longest and unchanged production motorcycle in history, having remained in production since 1948.

The Royal Enfield Interceptor 650 was developed as a modern classic motorcycle, that is, a motorcycle with vintage styling but modern engineering, and released as a lower-cost alternative to more established models like the Triumph Bonneville, Moto Guzzi V7, and the BMW R nineT.

Much like the other modern classic motorcycles to come before it, the Interceptor 650 has become a popular target for custom motorcycle garages. As a result of this, we’ve seen more and more of them popping up on the show circuit, and more motorcycle parts companies producing bolt-on additions for them.

The Royal Enfield Interceptor 650 you see here is a custom built by Zain J. Design. It’s based on a 2021 model that the built included fresh paint, clip-on handlebars, a new leather seat and grips, bar end mirrors, a wrapped exhaust with new silencers, relocated gauges, a relocated license plate, new Firestone tires, and a rear fender delete.

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