Headquartered in India, TVS Motor is one of the biggest motorcycle manufacturers that you may not have heard of. They sell a whopping three million units a year—which makes them the country’s third-largest marque—and they own Norton. Most notably, all of the motorcycles they produce have a capacity of 312.2 cc or less.
Proving that small bikes are big fun, TVS makes models like the neo-retro TVS Ronin 225, the fully-faired TVS Apache RR 310, and the edgy TVS Apache RTR 310 naked. They also regularly work with custom workshops like Smoked Garage to show off the potential of their plucky street bikes.
Based in Jakarta, Indonesia, Smoked recently buttoned up two custom TVS motorcycles—and we don’t know which one we love more.…