THUNDERCLAP
It is no surprise that Motoring’s first modded machine was a café racer. After all, nothing showcases everyday grit and purpose more than this species of caffeinated two-wheeler. In 2003, only Pablo was around when our founding editor, Bijoy Kumar Y, rolled an innocent Royal Enfield Thunderbird into a workshop to be fashioned into what you see here. For at least two of us back then, it became a template of what was possible in life. The Thunderclap was equal parts beautiful and awkward, like life itself, with the former more than making up for the latter. Oh, how freeing it would’ve been to ride a motorcycle like that in a time that was actually closer to the original café racers than the handful of factory-made slicksters we’ve gotten since then.
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