Written by Marlon Slack
If you haven?t heard of the new Royal Enfield 650 GT – welcome. I hope life has been comfortable for you under your rock. Feast your bleary eyes on the new platform that?s going to become a staple of the custom scene over the next twenty years. That?s right, a decade?s worth of rumours have come to fruition and Enfield are about to release their two 650cc twins later this year. And we?re delighted to show you one of the first customised examples, a hint at the future, with Young Guns Speed Shop?s new cafe racer dubbed ?Rohini?.

Switzerland?s Young Guns Speed Shop have a reputation for building period-correct scramblers, trackers and cafe racers. They have an eye for design, sure, but they also approach many resto-mods with a sense of reverence and historical correctness you rarely see from other builders. They put seriously rare parts on seriously rare bikes. So it?s no surprise that Royal Enfield approached them, months before the actual release of the 650 GT, to see what their eagle eyes could make from their new platform.
And as soon as they had a good look at the Enfield, they knew what they were going to build. ?A classic cafe racer,? Young Gun?s Nik Heer says, ?we wanted to build something from the days of old. And when you take a look at the frame geometry it was clear. We were going to build a classic British supersport bike from the early 1970?s. I knew it was going to be a simple and good base to work on?.

?Our first step of the b...