Bollywood Actors Who Own Custom-Built Motorcycles

The deep hum of the engine, the throbbing of the bike underneath you and open skies! Bollywood actors, like the rest of us, are crazy about their bikes and cars. Some go so far as to customise their bikes as they truly want it to be. Don't we all wish we could too.

John Abraham - The Lightfoot

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Known as the Bollywood actor with the best motorbike collection, John Abraham has been instrumental in popularising many superbikes in India. Unsurprisingly, one of the most well-known bikes, ‘The Lightfoot', has been customised by the esteemed Rajputana Customs. It's a single seater bike custom-built around a Royal Enfield 350 cc engine in the style of American board track racers. If custom-built is what you are looking for, it cannot get better than this. Most of the parts have been hand made in the workshops of Rajputana Customs and feature elaborate detailing specifically designed for John Abraham.

Sunil Shetty - The Vintage

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Sunil Shetty is a veteran among Bollywood actors. It's little wonder that his Royal Enfield Machismo 500 is also custom-built in a vintage style. Customised by Vardenchi, Sunil Shetty recently added ‘The Vintage' to his bike collection. This expands his already prestigious collection which includes BMW X5 and the Hummer H3. According to Akshay Varde, the CEO of Vardenchi, they worked hard to obtain original parts from the gone-by era to give the bike an authentic vintage feel.

Gul Panag - Jawa 42

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Gul Panag comes from an army family. So it was not surprising when she asked for her latest motorcycle, the Jawa 42, to be customised to commemorate India's victory in the Indo-Pak war of 1971 of which her father, Lt.Gen.Panag is a veteran. It is customised in a Lumos Lime colour scheme and engraved with Gul Panag's name and birth year. The bike features a 293-cc single cylinder liquid engine, the Indian tricolour on the fuel tank and an Indian army emblem. This is in addition to the Bollywood actor's Royal Enfield Electra 350, which is the last cast-iron bike engine created by Royal Enfield.

Jackie Shroff - The Skeletor

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Inspired by popular comic books and movies, Jackie Shroff's Skeletor could be the most radical motorbike to grace Bollywood. Larger than life, like everything Jaggu dada does, the bike features a fibreglass skull on top and a body inspired by the human skeleton. Created around the engine of a Royal Enfield Thunderbird, the body was designed through hundreds of hours of labour by Vardenchi. If this was not enough to catch your attention, the eyes of the skulls light up, giving it a truly ghostly feel.

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