Post Listing Update: Lowering the asking price to $7,300 wasn’t good enough to get any interest.
6-11-2017 Update: Nearly a year later, this bike is back up for sale on eBay. The asking price is a pinch lower – find it still in Brooklyn with a BIN of $7,300 or best offer
Anyone who’s perused Bike-urious before can easily see how much Royal Enfield means to me. It’s a brand that has lasted over a 100 years and has the longest continuously used motorcycle design with its Bullet model. So what happens when an American designer from Philly attempts to customize something as constant as a Bullet? The Hammarhead Woodsmen happens!
James Loughead started Hammarhead Industries with a vision of taking new variations of English classics such as the Royal Enfield Bullet and the Triumph Scrambler and turning them into eye-catching customs. Hammarhead Industries went under a few years back and a couple of people even laid claim to the shop committing fraud. Not sure which came first, the closing of shop or the fraud, or even if the latter is true, but one thing is for certain, the bikes that came out of there are pretty awesome looking.
The bike for sale started out as a 2009 Royal Enfield Bullet G5 with EFI 500cc single cylinder that was converted to the Woodsman in 2012. Just from the pictures, you can tell it’s got a lot of interesting bits and pieces both added and removed. The pigeon gray paint goes really well with the industrial combination of matte black plastics, polished tank, fenders & exhaust, and the ubiquitous Dunlop K70 vintage tires.
It has 6,600 babied miles according to the seller and while the asking price seems fair for a barely used custom bike of this quality, the relatively shady and unknown past of the builder could keep the value of this bike low for anyone looking to make this an investment or collector’s item. If you’re looking to make this your daily driver, want something pretty unique given the cafe racer/tracker/scrambler fad, and have the cash to spare, then this is an easy choice to make.
For a visual overview of the bike, check out this video:
Otherwise, you can find this bike in Brooklyn, New York for $7,750 here on Craigslist.