Bittoo, the V-2 by Raputana Customs

Customizing a Motorcycle is in many ways a truly epic undertaking. It’s like climbing the Everest of the mechanical world, requiring equal parts engineering skills, design, creativity, problem solving, patience and brute force. And when someone does that so nicely, there’s nothing more left to say than pleasuring our eyeballs. Here we’ve got them again, Rajputana Custom Motorcycle, in short, RCM’s second custom on a V-twin engine. The first one was the Rajmata from donor bike of a 1200cc Harley Davidson. Here’s a couple of shots to get you excited (who needs Viagra haha).

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“Purav Sood’s Honda-Steed is called “Bittoo” because the boys in the shop have always called her “Bittoo” as opposed to “V-2 or V-Twin” since they sound the same. It was innocent mispronunciation that sparked the name “Bittoo” and we just left it at that lovingly if i may say so. So there you have it, no heavy names with descriptive meanings behind them…namkaran ho gaya hai by the youngest helper in the shop and he insists on calling her “Bittoo”. Vijay Singh told 350cc.com right after he posted the photos on their fan club, few minutes before from now, we are doing it fast enough right?
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“The donor bike was originally a Honda Steed 400cc that we restored and customized by us. Purav wanted a simple and subtle looking bike which didn’t stand out in a crowd instantly. We stuck with an all Black and Chrome theme for the bike with a few highlights of metal work and led lights. She sounds like a beauty and rides real smooth as well.” Said Vijay.
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“We didnt make any changes to the frame but  did the rear swing arm” Vijay explained to us. He added ” We wont do the same custom using an Royal Enfield, too much work and it doesn’t make sense”  You’ve done all the fair justice to all the Royal Enfields you’ve worked with, I told myself while writing this.
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How about the Price? We obviously ask everytime, well if you have a Honda Sted 400cc, go and hit them since you’ll get a great deal. It’s about INR 2.2Lakh ($4400) for the custom charge. Since Vijay mentioned, the same custom can’t be done with a Royal Enfield.
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“Its always been about the bikes..never about me…so its good to see them in the limelight, Cheers to the people who have been working hard right beside me for the last 2 years. “Bittoo” it is .” Vijay ended with. Again we thank him and his  hard working passionate team for all those pretty Motorcycles to offer us to watch.

Here’s a nice video of Bittoo, on the Bike Vijay himself, taken by RCM,

You may drop a mail for any kind of inquiry at rajputanacustoms@gmail.com.
Photo courtesy: Rajputan Custom Motorcycle.

14 thoughts on “Bittoo, the V-2 by Raputana Customs

  1. Wow! RCM really growing so fast! though for such a bike like Honda Steed, there’s less left to do much. So I’ll not say this one is not the best among RCM bikes (considering the CUSTOM job, since the bike is a eye catcher in the default look as well, or any other v-twins).

  2. mast solid hai boss….!! one question, are you using the same side cover like Rajmata? they look same….!

  3. Rock-strong looks with power and a real head-turner. Can I get this mean-machine with a budget of 150k to 200k on my Bullet Electra 350cc with some minor changes. RCM ppl plz do contact me on 9999-176-176

  4. Sir I dont have bike which u required but I am more interested in your bittoo bike can you let me know the price of it with the bike you choose
    Waiting for your reply

  5. So why did you customise such a gay little Japanese bike? What a waste of time. People must laugh at you as you ride by. “Look at that gay boy riding the other little boy!”

  6. Hi, I have an old honda steed 600 is there guide i can follow to help me customize it to look like the bike i just saw on this page?
    I am from Nairobi, Kenya in East Africa.

  7. What an amazing transformation from an modest looking Steed to this feisty black beauty.

    I have fell in love with this bike – how much did does it normally cost to modify a Steed to this (excluding the cost of the bike itself)?.

    Correct me if I’m wrong, but does this bike have LED brake lights integrated into the rear fender? Because in my country – bikes must have rear lights to be road worthy.

    Also if it possible to install a digital speedometer onto this bike? Probably something sourced out from a Honda CBR250R or a Honda CBR300R?

    Looking forward to hear from you 🙂

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