Mumbai-based Maratha Motorcycles has created a new
Royal Enfield café racer, called the ‘Stardust.’ Maratha Motorcycles used the
Royal Enfield Classic 350 as a base for this custom cafe racer. The modified Royal Enfield
Stardust is a craft-house café racer creation that takes inspiration from a
multi-faceted radiant diamond. The bike features a chroma flair paint scheme
that is made possible by royal pearls. The pearls represent grains, which are
solid refractory pieces of individual ‘presolar stars.’ The unique paint scheme
changes its colour with the viewing angle and light source.
The customized Royal Enfield café racer features
handcrafted body parts like the café-fuel tank, rear cowl, and side panels.
Other peripheral parts like rear swingarm, exhaust system, and headlight mounts
are all hand chamfered. The rectangular air-filter and battery box are unique
and custom-built as well.
The presence of a single-seat and rear cowl in place
of the pillion seat makes this custom Royal Enfield Stardust a true-blue café
racer. The bike also features hand-built rear set footpeg mounts and a
number-plate holder. The front turn indicators are integrated into the clip-on
handlebars, while the taillight and rear indicators sit inside the rear frame
below the seat cowl.
The Royal Enfield Stardust runs on classic café
racer tires, manufactured in England, which pair with custom 16-inch wire-spoke
wheels. To maintain the uniqueness of the cafe racer, the frame, triple clamps,
and hand grips are customized in-house. Apart from the fuel tank, side panels
and rear cowl, all other parts get black paint treatment.
