In just four years, Sinroja has become one of the most talked-about custom shops in England. As immaculately finished bikes set sail from the workshop run by brothers Rahul and Birju Sinroja, word on the street builds.
Life in the Midlands city of Leicester is a far cry from the small town in India where Rahul and Birju grew up. But that?s where the brothers learned their skills, playing with lathes in their father?s factory, before they moved to the UK.

Like all good custom shops, Sinroja relies on word-of-mouth?and not just publicity on sites like EXIF. The commission for this exquisite BMW R100 RS airhead came from a client called David, a friend of the Dubai-based chap who bought Sinroja?s very first custom bike.
?David was impressed by our work, and when it came to having a dream bike built for himself, he came to us,? says Rahul.
?He had a lovely vision of an old school BMW, but wanted someone to ?see it through??and so we did.?
David already had the donor bike, an R100RS imported from USA. ?The condition was rather questionable and clearly it hadn?t been run in a decade,? says Rahul. ?David had a mechanic working on the bike, but realized that it needed a complete strip down and redesign.?

Sinroja aren?t fazed by heavy mechanical work: on all their ?classic? bike builds, they dismantle the entire drivetrain down to the bare cases. Then everything gets vapor blasted, to check out the damage down by time and weather.
After seeing everything in bare metal, t...