Since its inception, Royal Enfield’s 650 twins have been established as great bikes for custom builds. We’ve already seen hundreds of scramblers, flat-trackers, cafe-racers, and whatnot, so when RE’s Australia-NZ division announced a custom build competition, Royale Motorcycles wanted to do something different.

So different, in fact, that the custom bike shop ended up creating a full-blown track weapon, based on the Royal Enfield Continental GT 650 that WILL blow your mind.

Royal Enfield Continental GT 650 Race Bike By Royale Motorcycles

Royale Motorcycles approach here was mainly to steer away from the usual scrambler, cafe-racer, and flat-tracker builds, and the idea of a sportbike for the track came from Royal Enfield’s race bike for the GT Cup in India.

Two key elements for a race bike are aerodynamics and weight reduction, and both have been tackled here quite well. For the latter, all the road-friendly bits such as the lights, indicators, mirrors, and seats were stripped off while a sleek race fairing along with a rear cowl was put in place to tackel the former.

Now, to the more functional bits. In its stock avatar, the Continental GT 650 isn’t a fast-steering, agile motorcycle and is not a corner carver. But this is key for a track bike. So the folks at Royale Motorcycles tweaked the chassis geometry and added a custom sub-frame at the rear to help the bike take on fast as well as slow corners with ease.

Meanwhile, the updated chassis was coupled with track-friendly parts like an aluminum swingarm (from a Honda CBR400), front and rear Ohlins suspension, and 17-inch alloy wheels wrapped in Pirelli Supercorsa tires.

And before you ask, the Ohlins forks, triple-clamp, clip-on handlebar, Nissin braking setup, and the front alloy are all borrowed from a Triumph Daytona 675R} while the rear wheel comes off of a Kawasaki Ninja 400}.

At the heart of all this wizardry, we have the relatively stock 648cc, parallel-twin engine which makes 47 horsepower and 38.35 pound-feet in its stock avatar. Here, however, the output should be a little bit more as this is equipped with a custom free-flow exhaust system topped by an HP Corse end can and an airbox delete kit.

Finally, everything is brought together by a dual-tone grey and black paint scheme with bright orange pinstripes to add a sporty contrast.

Can You Buy It?

Royale Motorcycles hasn’t said much about whether this bike will go on sale or not. Even if it did, though, it’d probably be in its home country of New Zealand, which makes it out of bounds.