1972 Jawa 250 Racer - Highland Custom Motorcycles

As you probably know, India has a hell of a lot of people. Around four times the population of America. Or about 50 times the size of Australia. That's right, there's about 1.2 billion Indians and only a small percentage of those people have cars. As of 2002, India had an estimated 37 million motorcycles/mopeds which made it home to the largest number of motorised two-wheelers in the world. And ever since we featured a couple of bikes from India, it seems like we have received about 36 million emails from Indians submitting their motorbikes. Of those emails, here is one that stood out. The bike was built by Umang Shankar and his team at Highland Custom Motorcycles. It's called 'Highland' because Umang is from a village in the Himachal hills and is proud to be a 'highlander'. He is also a proud member of the Royal Enfield motorcycle group called 'Road Survivors' - one of the oldest motorcycle clubs in India. Umang is passionate about motorcycles and passionate about this little Jawa racer, so lets hear from the man himself... 

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JL Mekaniikka Supercharged Nitrous Jawa 500

Isolation does strange things to people. Think about Jack Nicholson in The Shining or the UNAbomber. Leave a man all alone with nothing else but his thoughts and the wilderness and you're bound to end up with your own little Apocalypse Now of one kind or another. But what if you could channel all that craziness and obsession into something constructive? Like, say... a motorbike. What do you think a man could achieve then? Whatever it would be, you can bet it'd be original, fast, and just a little bit crazy. My fellow Pipeburnians, meet Finnlandian Janne Leiman and his Jawa 500 from Mänttä, which roughly translates to "Twin Peaks" in English. No, really.

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