

The story is actually a bit more complex. The motorcycle is the dream work of a fellow who signs himself Chanderjeet, an IT trainer in New Delhi with no time, no shop and no tools to do his own restoration work.

But he is a young man with an eye for beauty and a love for Royal Enfield motorcycles.

Reading it, we learn that the "off the shelf parts" from England and the U.S. were too expensive; Chanderjeet had what he needed hand made in India, including the beautiful steel tank and other café parts.

The photographs themselves deserve comment. "What is going on with your camera?" one observer asked on the ADVrider forum. "These pictures you keep posting look like oil paintings."
Chanderjeet explained that he was using PhotoShop to make his pictures look like Lomo pictures. Lomos are cheap cameras made in Russia, and users deliberately process their slide film in the more common color negative film. The bad cameras and wrong chemicals produce interesting effects that PhotoShop can mimic.
When someone asked "How about a shot of the bike without the PhotoShop affects?" Chanderjeet complied with the request, and later photos looked less doctored.

Chanderjeet named the motorcycle Richënfield, after his wife Richa. They have a baby coming in June, so the motorcycle is for sale. Chanderjeet comments that "deep inside I know, this is NOT my last Enfield."

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