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    Royal Enfield

    Watching TV Travel Channel (25) and seeing those dudes on Royal Enfileds.
    I like the 'olde school' looks of them

    Anybody had any experience with them (the 'new updated' models!).

    Any good and are they semi-reliable??
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    Couple of English blokes on the TL site have bought new ones for a bit of fun/go to work on etc etc,both have had plenty of problems.
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    Quote Originally Posted by scumdog View Post
    are they semi-reliable??
    Quote Originally Posted by 98tls View Post
    plenty of problems.
    Sounds authentic.
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    I talked to a young dude who had one of the army ones (the latest model EFI one) He had had no issues in six months from new he said.

    But some other dude I was talking to said the metallurgy something something blah blah issues dont go there.

    For the same money I think I would just buy an SR400.
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    Quote Originally Posted by HenryDorsetCase View Post
    I talked to a young dude who had one of the army ones (the latest model EFI one) He had had no issues in six months from new he said.

    But some other dude I was talking to said the metallurgy something something blah blah issues dont go there.

    For the same money I think I would just buy an SR400.
    The SR400 would be faster and way more reliable...
    About 7 years back I was asked to go through a 500 which had been bought in India, ridden there then brought home to NZ. After extensive work including considerable remachining and a shitload of thread inserts, plus the fitting of an electronic ignition trigger - to get around the wandering timing caused by the points shaft bearing bush wearing rapidly....We had a pretty good 500. Started reliably, ran nicely, didn't leak much oil...
    However at the same time I had a 1950/51 Norton ES2 500 here....which was one complete gear faster. Both on standard gearing, the ES2 was as fast in third as the Enfield was flat out in top....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grumph View Post
    However at the same time I had a 1950/51 Norton ES2 500 here....which was one complete gear faster. Both on standard gearing, the ES2 was as fast in third as the Enfield was flat out in top....
    I think anyone who buys a Royal Enfield for performance has been seriously mislead at some stage

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    ...of the five or six bikes I have stopped to help and if I had a trailer on, give a lift home over the last few years, three have been R.E's with oil hemorrhages...coincidental?...maybe...

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    scummy rides a harley so shoud be used to trailers

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    The new RE is a whole new engine that just looks a bit like the old 1950s one.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JimO View Post
    scummy rides a harley so shoud be used to trailers
    True.

    Once for a really-buggered battery. (Went instantly flatter-than-a-flat-thing after it started the bike OK only 15 minutes before)
    Once for a broken chain.
    Once for a front pulley coming loose (Got me home from Nelson though)

    So yeah, pretty bad for only 20 years of Harley ownership...
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    Quote Originally Posted by scumdog View Post
    True.

    Once for a really-buggered battery. (Went instantly flatter-than-a-flat-thing after it started the bike OK only 15 minutes before)
    Once for a broken chain.
    Once for a front pulley coming loose (Got me home from Nelson though)

    So yeah, pretty bad for only 20 years of Harley ownership...
    100,000 km on mine. One damaged belt that I had to limp home on slowly. Other than that no probs.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Flip View Post
    100,000 km on mine. One damaged belt that I had to limp home on slowly. Other than that no probs.
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    Pretty much wot he said.

    You will at some point pull it to bits to build it up properly.

    They are NOT designed for speed - an original RE from early 60's is probably faster but you can fix almost anything and make it bigger/faster to boot. A rung up from a Ural in development and quality but its still a bloody long ladder to get up to HD.

    Had a mate with one that was tweaked - a 650 triumph could just get away from it but he was really trying and the 650 was merely a bit shocked to find a poxy old single on his tail...

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    Am amused watching Guy Martin negotiate his way around India on one at the moment on Choice.
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    Yeah,that was cool.
    Next week he's gunna race one

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