Hazan
Motorworks The Musket’
Maxwell Hazan is a name that needs no
introduction. As s two-time winner of Pipeburn’s Bike Of The Year award,
he’s one of the few builders globally that could lay claim to the title of
‘world’s best’. So what does a guy with so much raw talent, fabrication ability
and vision do next? Whatever he damn well
pleases – that’s what. And what Max pleases in 2015 is to take two
Royal Enfield 500 cc engines, enlist the help of a certain Mr Aniket
Vardhan to magic them into a single 1000 cc V-twin, and then construct a bike
around it that just might be the best-looking custom bike we’ve ever seen. Here’s Hazan Motorwork’s latest, ‘The Musket’ Royal Enfield
V-twin.
“The Musket is a project that I have wanted to build for
years; even before I built motorcycles for a living, I used to drool over
this hand-made gem of an engine. It’s essentially where the build started. It’s
a work of art that was hand-carved from a block of wood, hand-cast at a
foundry and then hand-machined, all by the amazing Aniket
Vardhan to make this, the 1000 cc Musket V-twin engine.”
Thinking
back, Max felt there was a certain amount of fate to the build. “I
was approached by an open-minded client at exactly the same time that Aniket
had just finished development on his latest engine and was ready to part with
it. I went through four different sets of tires before settling on the
huge BF Goodrich Silvertown car tires you see here. The engine is
truly massive, making the big frame absolutely necessary. This
in turn dwarfed standard motorcycle tires and, well, you get the
drift.”
