Enfield Cafe Racer looks good

[Big Dave]

Mike has done a write up on the Royal Enfield Café. Looks pretty nice.

http://www.kiwiridernews.com/2013/08/enfield-cafe-racer-coming.html

[awa355]

Bloody nice styling. I used to do local rides with a mate who had an Enfield 500. The back trye looked no bigger than a small commuter trye.

The exhaust sound was nice. It made my GB500 tt engine sound like the Honda trailbike that it was.

[AllanB]

I'd tap it.

[98tls]

I'd tap it.

Same,make an awesome little project...

[Blackbird]

It's so close to the original UK Royal Enfield from the 60's that it's fair to say Royal Enfield got it spot on first time round! The "Gold Star" swept pipe of the original 250 looks better from a personal viewpoint, but that's about it.

A couple of pics of the original attached. One of them has a Churchgate Mouldings fairing attached. If my memory serves me correctly, Churchgate originally developed them for the factory racing Thruxton Bonnevilles and subsequently sold them to the public. Have also seen them on the Thruxton Venoms and they look great on them too.

They also made a 250 2 stroke GP bike which had superficially similar looks. Pic attached simply because it's a good looker.

[boman]

Very nice. Just what I had in mind to build, at some stage.

[Ocean1]

Very nice bit of kit. Think they've got the price right too.

Now if they'd bore it to 900...

[HenryDorsetCase]

Very nice bit of kit. Think they've got the price right too.

Now if they'd bore it to 900...

It would shake itself to bits, surely?

Now if they would make the 1000cc V Twin like Mr Aniket has:

You've seen this already? no? Dude decides to make an Enfield 500 into a V Twin 1000. It is incredible and all his own work.

http://thekneeslider.com/casting-the-musket-v-twin-engine/

http://thekneeslider.com/aniket-vardhans-royal-enfield-musket-998-v-twin-progress-continues/

http://thekneeslider.com/royal-enfield-v-twin-the-musket/

[Ocean1]

It would shake itself to bits, surely?

Now if they would make the 1000cc V Twin like Mr Aniket has:

You've seen this already? no? Dude decides to make an Enfield 500 into a V Twin 1000. It is incredible and all his own work.

http://thekneeslider.com/casting-the-musket-v-twin-engine/

http://thekneeslider.com/aniket-vardhans-royal-enfield-musket-998-v-twin-progress-continues/

http://thekneeslider.com/royal-enfield-v-twin-the-musket/

Aye, the limit seems to be 6hundredmumble don't it? I was more musing on how to get the power up to where I'd like it to be.

And yes, I'd seen the 700 Musket thingy. Don't know where guys like that get the hrs from to do shit like that, you're talking years of work. Didn't know he'd done one with the Bullet barrels, or that there's a kit planned. Perhaps I'll get one and put it aside to fill my leisure days in my pending dotage. In between drinks.

[jonbuoy]

They must have put a fair amount of R&D work into the "new" alloy engine without much of a capacity increase- seems like a real waste of an opportunity. Looks nice though.

[nallac]

Awesome looking Bike.......