With its casual bobber styling and easygoing twin-cylinder motor, the Royal Enfield Shotgun 650 isn’t the type of motorcycle you’d expect the unhinged crew at ICON Motosports to froth over. Nevertheless, Portland’s finest were nonplussed when Royal Enfield asked them to customize one for the annual EICMA trade show.
ICON specializes in the outrageous—and nothing is quite as outrageous as turning a mild-mannered cruiser into a bonkers café racer-cum-drag bike. But getting the Shotgun from there to here necessitated a substantial overhaul of its chassis.
Most of the frame’s rear half was binned, along with the bike’s wheels, suspension, and swingarm. With a new subframe welded into place, team ICON started piecing together the Shotgun’s new running gear.
Some judicious finagling of the front end made room for a set of nitrogen forks from a 2015 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R.…