COMMANDO 80 TRIBUTE: ROYAL ENFIELD “BOOTNECK” INTERCEPTOR

[weeksy]

https://www.bikebound.com/2022/12/30/bootneck/

[v8-powered]

Thumbs up from me - like that one.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

Looks okay apart from the tyres, is it named after the comics about the 2nd World War that we used to get.

[Bustaspoke]

Interesting story about the build.
I like the idea of a Enfield Scrambler & I like the blacked out crankcase covers plus the 2 into 1,not sure how that affects the performance though.
Not so keen on the Marine related logo's,but obvz they're a major point of the styling exercise.I'd also fit some mudguards & swap out the tyres

[MrLongbeard]

Nice, it needs the dagger tank (without the dagger and massive void obvs) rather that the standard one though

[mangocrazy]

I'm confused (not difficult, I grant you) - does the bike as auctioned have a real dagger inset into the tank? Is there a cover that fits over the recess? I cannot begin to imagine that anyone would be allowed to ride around all tooled up with a dagger on display (or even hidden). You'd either attract all the wrong sort of attention or get your collar felt PDQ.

Apart from that (and the silly tyres and lack of mudguards) it's a good looking unit.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

I quite like the idea of a handy place to keep things in the top of the tank

[The Spin Doctor]

Gordon Bennett...

[Supermofo]

Like it other than the knobblies

[DefTrap]

Ok styling.
Ridiculous tank.

[Couchy]

Interesting story about the build.
I like the idea of a Enfield Scrambler & I like the blacked out crankcase covers plus the 2 into 1,not sure how that affects the performance though.
Not so keen on the Marine related logo's,but obvz they're a major point of the styling exercise.I'd also fit some mudguards & swap out the tyres

Mine had a 2 into 1, works great and quite a power increase

[DefTrap]

I really hate themed paint jobs, it's the car/bike equivalent of having a 'personal' tattoo that you wave about all the time. This one is sort of subtle (until you get to the effing great knife).
It just reminds me of 90s streetfighter customs, where the owner must wander into Dream machine paintworks with money and not a clue what he wants - and the artist goes "er, well what do you like?" and he goes "oh, er, guns, bulldogs, women's tits. And fire". And he ends up with some horrific montage of all of those bursting through the metal flake.

[Bigjawa]

I'm confused (not difficult, I grant you) - does the bike as auctioned have a real dagger inset into the tank? Is there a cover that fits over the recess? I cannot begin to imagine that anyone would be allowed to ride around all tooled up with a dagger on display (or even hidden). You'd either attract all the wrong sort of attention or get your collar felt PDQ.

Apart from that (and the silly tyres and lack of mudguards) it's a good looking unit.

Aren't Sikhs allowed to carry some kind of dagger?

I wouldn't worry about the exhaust cutting power, those tyres are fucking awful over 60, but silly offensive weapon and tyre apart, it doesn't look bad.