The year is 2044, the setting is a near-future decaying London, and social inequality is at an all-time high. Izi lives in The Kitchen?a rundown housing project long abandoned by the British Government?but he dreams of a better life. Hustling to achieve that dream, he traverses the gritty cityscape aboard his trusty motorcycle; a heavily modified Royal Enfield Shotgun 650.
Now streaming on Netflix, The Kitchen is a dystopian drama currently boasting an 87% score on Rotten Tomatoes. The film was co-directed, co-written, and co-produced by award-winning actor Daniel Kaluuya, and stars actor and rapper Kano as the protagonist, Izi. But for today, we’re focusing squarely on Izi’s ride.

To get Izi from A to B, the producers of The Kitchen needed a custom motorcycle that would fit the movie’s futuristic sci-fi aesthetic. So they reached out to Royal Enfield, whose obsession with the custom scene is no secret. The Indian marque regularly farms bikes out to some of the industry’s best custom workshops, and you’ll find them in the trenches at the scene’s biggest events. This time around though, Royal Enfield did a whole lot more than just simply supply a brand new Shotgun 650. Working from Royal Enfield?s UK Technology Centre, the company’s in-house custom team built Izi’s ride themselves?deploying the myriad rapid prototyping methods that they have access to in the process.

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