High-end custom motorcycles are nice to look at, but they take substantial talent to build and serious money to buy. That’s why for every top dollar custom out there, there are scores of bikes that have been lightly tweaked, just enough to make them stand out from the crowd. It’s also why some manufacturers are making bikes that are relatively easy to customize—and why more custom builders are producing kits.
These two customs from Germany’s Crooked Motorcycles epitomize that ethos. Both use the refreshingly simple Royal Enfield Interceptor 650 as a base, and both are dressed in plug-and-play parts.
Crooked has called this their ‘RoyalSERIES’, and offers it in ‘Gravel’ [above] and ‘Street’ [below] versions. Builders Jakob Müller and Dominikus Braun were inspired to spin the Interceptor 650 off into these two directions, after owning and riding one for 18 months.…