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Malle hardens up a pair of Enfield Interceptor 650s



If you?re a fan of classic motorcycle luggage, you probably know the English company Malle. Set up by designers Robert Nightingale and Jonny Cazzola, the London outfit sells tough but stylish travel gear for riders, and classy accoutrements for weekday use.
Robert and Jonny also have a knack for running quirky moto events such as the Malle Mille. Their latest endeavor is next month?s ?Great Malle Rally,? and they?ve built two very stylish Royal Enfield Interceptor 650s as support vehicles.

Royal Enfield signed on the line when Robert and Jonny pitched the idea of rally spec support bikes to them.
The goal was to create two machines to carry engineers supporting 100 ?very inappropriate? custom and classic motorcycles on the 1,250-mile (2,000 km), five-day rally?running across the wildest landscapes of mainland Britain.
?We wanted to create very specific tools for a very specific job,? says Robert. ?The Interceptor 650 twin was perfect for the heart of the build: lightweight, fun, easy to modify and with a beautiful engine at its core.?
Robert and Jonny borrowed a stock Interceptor for a field test in Portugal earlier this year. ?After thrashing the bike over a thousand miles in three days, with 200 of those miles off road, we had a pretty good grasp of what it could do,? says Robert. ?And also what modifications it needed for the rally.?

When it was time to build the bikes, Malle worked with the Industrial Design team at Royal Enfield in the UK. On monthly trip...
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