the troy royal enfield by nino custom custom cycles

Nino Custom Cycles of Delhi India set out to build a bike to complete in the biker build-off during the 2014 India Bike Week. The base of the build was an older Royal Enfield single-cylinder four-stroke mill, cradled in a custom frame with the remaining elements of the bike affixed in such a way as to emit visions of functionality while still looking anything but ordinary.

In our opinion this is the best looking Royal Enfield featured on our site.

We recommend you stay away from anything to do with Nino. The guy is a scam artist. He owes bikerMetric hundreds of dollars, and based on what readers have written in, we are not alone.

For me custom bikes should always be about taking away rather than adding. When you make something your own in the badass world of motorcycles you are often cutting away the red tape the original manufacture put in place in order to unleash the fire-breathing beast you know is calling out deep from within the unisex bodywork and clumsy buttons and cookie-cutter switches.

Nino has built the bike from the wheels up, but by adding only the essentials and including style and flare wherever tastefully possible. The Original exhaust pipe has been modified to run just above the lower frame rail on the right side, and it has been hit with black paint to blend in. The short springer front end maintains the mechanical look of the air-cooled single, and the large chrome wheels front and back bookend the chrome engine case perfectly.

The leather seat has been hand fabricated and looks to be wide enough to allow wiggle room to alleviate loss of feeling on the rider’s backside, and the same rich leather appears on the bike’s handlebar grips too. The yellowed headlight lens and matte finished bezel were also one-off and suit the bike’s vintage appearance.

The gas tank is really bold and it’s been getting mixed reviews. It doesn’t need to be so angular, and a more rounded canister would add fuel range, but from behind the bars the seat rises to meet the tear drop tank perfectly and the off center filler cap matches the lack of symmetry at the bars created by the front mater cylinder.

The exposed chain and sprockets are just begging to grab hold of your pants or rip some flesh, and that tiny shock absorber under the seat doesn’t seem willing to soften the ride very much but you have to keep in mind this is a custom bike built to showcase the extent of the builder’s abilities. True that massive hunk of rubber in place of a rear tire would be cumbersome in tight corners, but the large contact patch could enhance the rider’s comfort if the psi was set properly for the operators weight.

We recommend you stay away from anything to do with Nino. The guy is a scam artist. He owes bikerMetric hundreds of dollars, and based on what readers have written in, we are not alone.

Nice bike though, *******.

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