From Customer to Friend: Max and The Sunday Rides
Some customer builds become more than a collection of motorcycle parts. Max first discovered Bonvent Motorbikes as a customer looking for a cleaner and more versatile setup for his Royal Enfield Interceptor 650. Through conversations about installation, design and our shared interest in custom motorcycles, that customer relationship gradually developed into a friendship.
Max is the rider behind The Sunday Rides, a YouTube channel dedicated to real-world motorcycle ownership, customisation, reviews and riding. His videos cover the Royal Enfield Interceptor 650 as well as several other motorcycles, with a practical approach that shows both the finished result and what the modifications are actually like to use.
He also produced a complete review of the Bonvent Modular Seat Kit. The video covers the installation, finish, practicality and everyday use of the modular solo-and-duo system, making it a useful independent resource for riders considering the kit.
A 2023 Interceptor 650 Reworked as a Refined Vintage Scrambler
The starting point for this project was a 2023 Royal Enfield Interceptor 650 with a striking blue fuel tank. Rather than turning the motorcycle into an extreme off-road machine, Max developed a balanced street scrambler with tracker and vintage roadster influences.
The blue tank immediately gives the motorcycle a strong identity. Max paired it with a tobacco-brown, diamond-stitched Bonvent seat and a matching brown leather side-panel bag. The combination of blue paint, warm brown upholstery and brushed-metal details creates a premium colour palette that feels both classic and personal.
The build is completed by long brushed-metal megaphone-style silencers, a wide tracker-style handlebar and a significantly cleaner cockpit. These elements visually stretch the motorcycle and make the Interceptor feel lighter, lower and more purposeful.
What makes the finished motorcycle successful is its restraint. It clearly belongs to the world of custom Royal Enfield scramblers and trackers, but it still retains the mechanical simplicity and approachable character of the original Interceptor 650.
A Cleaner Cockpit With a Tracker-Style Riding Position
One of the strongest changes is the wide brushed-aluminium tracker-style handlebar. Its wider and flatter shape gives the motorcycle a more assertive vintage scrambler profile while also changing the rider’s position.
Compared with the original handlebar, this type of setup can create a more upright and relaxed riding position, with the rider’s arms opened further apart. The result can feel particularly natural for urban riding, country roads and relaxed weekend use.
However, fitting a substantially wider handlebar is not always a simple bolt-on modification. Depending on the exact width, rise and control position, the original clutch cable, throttle cables and front brake hose may become too short. Electrical cables for the handlebar controls may also require careful rerouting or extension.
Before riding, the controls must move freely from full left lock to full right lock without pulling on a cable, hose or electrical connection. This part of Max’s build required more custom work than the model-specific Bonvent components fitted elsewhere on the motorcycle.
A Smaller Headlight and Compact Daytona Speedometer
Max replaced the large original seven-inch headlight with a more compact 5.75-inch unit. Reducing the visual size of the headlight opens the space around the fork and makes the front of the Interceptor feel considerably lighter.
A custom cover plate was also installed around the fork and cockpit area to conceal exposed wiring and create a cleaner transition between the headlight, handlebar and upper triple clamp.
The original twin-dial instrument cluster was removed and replaced with a compact Daytona speedometer positioned discreetly within the cockpit. This is an important visual change: the smaller instrument keeps the essential riding information while removing much of the bulk above the headlight.
Together, the smaller headlight, mini speedometer and tracker-style handlebar transform the riding view as much as they transform the appearance of the motorcycle from the outside.
The Bonvent Modular Seat as the Visual Centre of the Build
The Bonvent Modular Seat Kit for the Interceptor 650 is the visual centre of Max’s build. The tobacco-brown upholstery and diamond stitching create a strong contrast with the blue fuel tank while maintaining the classic character of the Royal Enfield 650 Twin platform.
The modular system allows the rear configuration to be adapted according to the rider’s needs. The motorcycle can be used with a compact solo seat arrangement, a passenger extension or a luggage-focused rear setup.
On this build, the seat is paired with the Bonvent mini luggage rack. This keeps the rear of the motorcycle open and visually light while adding a practical mounting area for small bags and everyday equipment.
The straight seat line also helps connect the fuel tank, side-panel area and rear mudguard. It gives the Interceptor a more coherent scrambler and tracker stance without cutting or permanently modifying the original frame.
A Compact Rear End With a Mini LED Tail Light
The original Royal Enfield rear section is relatively large, with a prominent mudguard, rear light and license plate assembly. Max replaced it with a combination of Bonvent parts designed to create a shorter and more balanced rear profile.
The setup includes the Bonvent Interceptor 650 Tail Tidy and Mini LED Tail Light Kit, the short rear mudguard, the rear loop frame cover and the mini luggage rack.
The compact rear light provides the tail light and brake light functions without adding a large housing behind the seat. The surrounding frame cover closes the exposed rear loop neatly, while the short mudguard helps protect the motorcycle without recreating the bulk of the original rear fender.
The license plate holder is designed with an adaptable mounting area suitable for a wide range of international license plate formats. Plate dimensions and road regulations vary between countries, so the final installation should always be checked against local requirements.
A compact E-Mark license plate light completes the assembly and keeps the number plate illuminated without dominating the rear design.
A Short Front Mudguard That Keeps the Original Fork Brace
Max also installed the Bonvent short front mudguard for the Interceptor 650.
The original Royal Enfield mudguard is mounted beneath the factory fork brace. With many conventional short aftermarket mudguards, the brace remains completely exposed above the new fender. Because the original part is relatively large and functional in appearance, this can make the front end feel unfinished.
Bonvent developed a different solution. The mudguard passes over the original fork brace, visually covering it while preserving its position on the motorcycle. This creates a cleaner, more integrated result without removing an important part of the original front-end assembly.
The factory bridge contributes to maintaining fork alignment and front-end rigidity. Removing it purely for appearance is therefore not the most mechanically sensible approach. Keeping the original brace while visually integrating it into the new mudguard provides a better balance between design and engineering.
Heat Shields That Follow the Engine’s Cooling Fins
The small Bonvent heat shields installed beside the engine are another distinctive detail. Their shape follows the horizontal lines of the Royal Enfield parallel-twin cooling fins, making them feel like part of the original engine architecture rather than an unrelated accessory.
They add a small protective barrier around hot areas that may otherwise be contacted accidentally, while also bringing more visual depth to the centre of the motorcycle.
Because of their finned, mechanical design, these heat shields work particularly well on Royal Enfield scrambler, café racer, tracker and vintage roadster builds. They are subtle components, but they help connect the engine, side-panel area and seat into a more complete design.
Bullet Indicators With Plug & Play Wiring
Smaller bullet-style LED indicators were used to reduce the visual weight of the original turn signals. Rather than cutting the Royal Enfield wiring harness, Max used Bonvent plug & play indicator adapters.
These adapters connect aftermarket indicators to the original Interceptor 650 connectors. This keeps the factory wiring untouched and makes the modification easier to reverse or diagnose later.
LED indicators consume less electrical power than traditional bulbs. On some motorcycles, this lower load causes the indicators to flash too quickly, a behaviour commonly called hyper flashing. When required, Bonvent LED indicator resistors add the appropriate load and restore a normal flash rate.
At the rear, the Bonvent wiring adapter provides connections for the aftermarket tail light, brake light, license plate light and turn signals without requiring the original harness to be cut or permanently altered.
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A Mix of Custom Work and Model-Specific Parts
This motorcycle is a good example of how different levels of customisation can be combined within the same project.
The tracker handlebar, compact headlight, Daytona speedometer and custom cockpit plate required more individual planning and adaptation. By contrast, the Bonvent seat system, mudguards, heat shields, rear-end components and wiring adapters were developed specifically around the Royal Enfield 650 platform.
This allowed Max to concentrate the more complex work around the cockpit while using cleaner, more straightforward solutions for the rest of the motorcycle.
The result does not look like a catalogue build made exclusively from one brand. It looks like Max’s motorcycle: a personal combination of parts selected around one coherent idea.
Why This Interceptor 650 Scrambler Build Works
The strongest custom motorcycles are not necessarily those with the largest number of modifications. They are the motorcycles where every detail supports the same visual direction.
On Max’s Interceptor 650, the blue tank and tobacco-brown seat establish the colour identity. The wide handlebar, small headlight and compact speedometer define the tracker-inspired cockpit. The megaphone-style silencers and short mudguards reinforce the vintage scrambler proportions, while the small lighting components keep the motorcycle visually light.
The Bonvent parts support that direction without overwhelming the bike. The modular seat, mini luggage rack, compact rear light, short mudguards and heat shields each have a clear role, but none of them tries to become the sole focus of the project.
Max did an excellent job of combining these elements into a Royal Enfield Interceptor 650 scrambler that feels premium, practical and genuinely personal.
Follow the Full Build on The Sunday Rides
All the photographs in this article were produced by Max, and his YouTube channel documents many of the modifications, tests and riding experiences behind the motorcycle.
You can follow Max through The Sunday Rides on YouTube and @max_sunday_rides on Instagram.
For a closer look at the seat, watch his complete Bonvent Modular Seat Kit review, including installation, comfort, quality and everyday practicality.
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