Build. Train. Race.: Three killer Royal Enfield race bikes
We love Royal Enfield North America’s Build. Train. Race. program for two reasons: it shines the spotlight on women in motorcycling, and it produces killer bikes. Now in its second season, it’s a grassroots initiative where a selection of women riders are each given a Royal Enfield 650 twin to customize for racing. Then they spend some time training, before duking it out on the track.
Last year’s edition of BTR stuck with flat track racing only, but Royal Enfield have now added road racing to the list.
The full roster includes 16 women in the US and four in Brazil, and the bikes are the INT 650 (called the ‘Interceptor’ outside of America) for flack track, and the Continental GT for road racing. Both bikes share Royal Enfield’s 47 hp / 52 Nm 648 cc parallel-twin motor, and both are ripe for customization?as many custom builders have already proven. Twenty motorcycles is too much to cram in here, so we’ve picked three of our favorite BTR machines; two flat trackers and one road racer.
Sarah Dixon’s flat tracker Sarah Dixon earns a living as a medical transportation driver, but racing is in her genes. Her mother was a drag racer, her grandfather raced dirt track, and Sarah’s been on two wheels from the age of two. So it’s little wonder that her race bike has a quintessential American flat track vibe to it.
Sarah’s INT 650 owes its new lines to a XR750-style fuel tank from First Klass Glass, and classic fl...
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