Royal Enfield

[mugge]

Spotted this bike on one of my travels. I do believe they have resurrected the brand. C&C most welcome.

[xpatUSA]

Spotted this bike on one of my travels. I do believe they have resurrected the brand. C&C most welcome.

Royal Enfields were made in India as well as UK, a bit like the Morris car models; also a bit like Venezuelan Hillmans and Mexican Volkswagens.

Got my attention because my first bike was a 1930's Enfield, 225cc two-stroke, outside flywheel and hand gear-change. A horrible beast. Next, an ex-WD 350cc side-valve. At least it had a speedo to show me the max speed of 55mph. Equally horrible.

Graduated to BSAs after that . . . .

[marlunn]

hmm, nice, remember my beast - RE continental 350cc - still got the scar on leg from kickstart kicking back, that was a while ago

[Shadowman]

Nice capture.

[Manfred M]

They are still being made in India. They are one very common bike over there.





for more information:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Enfield_%28India%29

[JBW]

Spotted this bike on one of my travels. I do believe they have resurrected the brand. C&C most welcome.

Royal Enfield never died. They have kept the classic look and much of the old technology alive.

[IzzieK]

I used to have a small Harley because I did not know of any other brand -- every motorcycle to me was and is a Harley. Yeah...yeah... ignoramus but I got a one-track mind. I wonder what colour is your capture? I googled the name and there are two distributors near where I live here...

[mugge]

They are still being made in India. They are one very common bike over there.


Manfred, thank you for the picture. That is certainly a fairly new bike. Today I spotted a dealer of Royal Enfield about 5km from our house. They were selling scooters just a couple of months ago. Well I'll be buttered on both sides. This weekend I'll be looking at a brand new Royal Enfield. Just looking though.



for more information:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Enfield_%28India%29

[Manfred M]

Royal Enfield never died. They have kept the classic look and much of the old technology alive.

They are made in India - home of the 1950s technology that went out of style in the developed world. We were driving along in a Tata Sumo when we were in India, when the rear passenger leaf spring broke. No problem, the driver jacked up the car, removed the leaf spring and headed to the nearest town to get a new leaf. When he couldn't find one, he had the old one welded up and we were on our way again. I can't image something like that happening at home. We would have been stuck in the middle of nowhere for a few days while a new strut came in from the supplier and some mechanic installed it.






On the other hand. the lack of modern pollution control technology on vehicles is quite evident as well. The autorickshaws seem to run on 2-stroke engines and belch out that lovely black exhaust.