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A nice stretch, pan seat and trim rear fender give this Superstar a makeover. |
A Royal Enfield Superstar featured
twice before on this blog is back and it looks better than ever.
"We emailed back and forth about an interesting Enfield I found on CraigsList in New York," wrote Chris Zeppieri.
"You informed me that it was probably a Bullet Superstar.
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Less is always more. |
"Well, I couldn't help myself. Moved the swing arm back to another bolt position originally used for the rear rack. Those are the factory springs. Got a new chain, and fabricated a plate/tail light mount.
"Because I am a woodworker —
www.timberedworks.com — I felt I needed to add some flavor to this bike so I bent and laminated some stock and shaped that solo pan seat out of solid wood.
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Superstar had its headlight separate from instrument panel. |
"Also did considerable work in cleaning up the wiring mess. The battery is stored in the left tool box and she rides like a dream!
"Recently brought this to the
5th Annual Brooklyn Invitational Bike Show and it was a hit; had a constant flow of people asking me about it!
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Long, low and very clean. |
"The (rear) fender is actually a front fender from another bike. I did a lot of modification to put these pieces together; it was a great project.
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Racy but not radical. |
"And I would totally make more seats if people wanted them!" (Contact him at timberedworks@gmail.com.)
The Superstar was a 350cc variation of the Bullet built in the late 1980s in India and never officially imported into the United States. That makes this a very rare bird. It's even more special now.
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The Superstar the way it looked stock. |
i really like the rear mudguard ..pls let me how did u do it??
ReplyDeleteI have the Royal Enfield superstar 1984. It's very nice to drive on off-road . I like it very much.
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ReplyDeleteWhats the price?
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