Our Story
Built by Hand. Shaped by Experience. Carried Forward Through Generations.
The story of Vintage Bike Customs did not begin with a website, a marketplace, or a business plan.
It began in a workshop.
At just 12 years old, Shahid started working as a helper in an automobile restoration workshop in Delhi, India. What began as a way to help support his family soon became the foundation of a lifelong relationship with metal, machines, restoration, and craftsmanship.
His journey into motorcycles happened almost by chance.
While still young, Shahid was approached by a foreign motorcycle enthusiast who needed custom modifications made to a motorcycle body. The project introduced him to an entirely different world of motorcycle craftsmanship—fuel tanks, mudguards, body panels, fabrication, shaping, restoration, and custom metalwork.
Something clicked.
By the age of 17, Shahid knew that motorcycle bodywork was not simply a job for him. It was the craft in which he could see his future.
Shahid Auto Arts — Delhi, India
By the age of 22, he had established his own workshop, Shahid Auto Arts, in Mayapuri, Delhi—an area known for automotive workshops, restoration specialists, and generations of skilled craftsmen.
The workshop gradually became known for motorcycle bodywork, restoration, fabrication, and custom metal shaping.
Customers came looking for parts that were difficult to repair, difficult to reproduce, or simply no longer available.
Vintage motorcycles demanded something modern mass production often could not provide: an understanding of how the original part was shaped, how its proportions should look, how it should fit the motorcycle, and how metal must be worked by hand to recreate it.
That knowledge became Shahid’s greatest asset.
Over the years, motorcycle enthusiasts and international buyers increasingly approached the workshop for custom and replacement vintage motorcycle body parts.
However, there was another side to the story.
Shahid was a craftsman first. His world was metalwork—not computers, international marketing, or English-language commerce.
For many years, intermediaries stood between the craftsman and the international customer. They sourced products from his workshop, communicated with overseas buyers, and sold the finished work under their own identities.
The craftsmanship travelled around the world.
The craftsman’s name often did not.
From Behind the Workshop Doors to the World
In 2008, Shahid took an important step forward by partnering with a friend to establish Best Deal International, alongside the eBay store US.Vidhi.
For the first time, the workshop began moving closer to the people actually using its products around the world.
But the bigger transformation came in 2017, when Shahid’s two sons created Vintage Bike Customs.
The purpose was simple: bring the family’s craftsmanship directly to riders, collectors, restorers, and workshops around the world.
No unnecessary chain of middlemen.
No hidden workshop.
No anonymous craftsman behind the product.
Vintage Bike Customs became the second generation of a craft that had already been developing for decades.
Knowledge That Cannot Be Learned From a Catalogue
Vintage motorcycle bodywork is not simply about copying dimensions.
A fuel tank can look almost correct and still be wrong.
A mudguard can follow the correct measurements and still sit incorrectly on the motorcycle.
A toolbox can resemble an original part but lack the curves, mounting points, proportions, or character expected by someone restoring a machine that may be 50, 70, or even 90 years old.
That understanding comes from years of handling original motorcycles and their parts.
It comes from repairing damaged tanks.
Straightening mudguards.
Recreating discontinued components.
Studying curves by eye.
Shaping metal by hand.
And learning from thousands upon thousands of parts that passed through the workshop before digital catalogues and modern manufacturing technology became commonplace.
That accumulated knowledge is the real heritage behind Vintage Bike Customs.
Nearly Four Decades of Craftsmanship
From Shahid’s earliest years inside a restoration workshop to the worldwide reach of Vintage Bike Customs today, the journey spans decades of practical motorcycle craftsmanship.
Across the broader history of the workshop and its associated businesses, we estimate that hundreds of thousands of motorcycle body components have passed through our hands.
Since Vintage Bike Customs began operating directly under its own name, we have supplied more than 20,000 motorcycle body parts to riders, restorers, collectors, and workshops around the world.
Our product range has grown to include fuel tanks, mudguards, toolboxes, chain guards, oil tanks, seats, side panels, and other difficult-to-source body components for classic and vintage motorcycles.
Many of these parts belong to motorcycles whose original manufacturers stopped producing replacement bodywork decades ago.
Keeping those motorcycles alive requires more than manufacturing.
It requires preserving knowledge.
Trusted by Vintage Motorcycle Enthusiasts Worldwide
Our online journey has allowed that craftsmanship to reach motorcycles far beyond Delhi.
Through eBay alone, Vintage Bike Customs built a history of approximately 3,200 customer feedback ratings while maintaining 100% positive feedback—a record that represents thousands of individual interactions with motorcycle enthusiasts around the world.
But numbers have never been the most important part of our story.
The most meaningful moment is seeing a motorcycle that has been restored using something made in our workshop.
A tank shaped in Delhi.
A mudguard replacing one that disappeared decades ago.
A toolbox completing a restoration halfway across the world.
There is a quiet connection between those motorcycles and the hands that helped keep them on the road.
The Second Generation
Today, Shahid’s two sons carry that legacy forward through Vintage Bike Customs.
The tools have evolved.
The technology has evolved.
The way customers find us has evolved.
But the principle behind the business remains unchanged:
Know the motorcycle. Respect the original design. Make the part properly. Stand behind the work.
The second generation combines decades of inherited motorcycle bodywork knowledge with modern manufacturing, quality control, international logistics, and direct customer service.
What was once a craftsman’s workshop in Delhi has grown into a family brand serving vintage motorcycle enthusiasts around the world.
Preserving Motorcycles. Preserving Craftsmanship.
Vintage motorcycles carry stories.
Every dent, curve, badge, tank, and mudguard belongs to an era when motorcycles were designed with a character that is difficult to reproduce through mass manufacturing alone.
Our responsibility is to help preserve that character.
Vintage Bike Customs exists because one craftsman began learning metalwork as a child, spent decades understanding motorcycle bodies with his own hands, and passed that knowledge to his two sons and the next generation of the family business.
What started inside a small Delhi workshop now reaches vintage motorcycles across the world.
And every time one of our parts helps bring another classic motorcycle back to life, that story continues.
Vintage Bike Customs
Heritage in every curve. Craftsmanship in every part.