raleighnut
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- One of the 'Elite'
It's easy to replicate the Enfield riding experience, just get a 125 Honda and fix a big galvanized bucket half full of old nuts and bolts to the rack.
I want a new Royal Enfield
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Chris S
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- Birmingham
Royal Enfield adds keep popping up on my web pages. They seem to be on a marketing drive at the moment.
Chris S
Legendary Member
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- Birmingham
Definitely not a Bullet (the current model). They have 350 and 500 cc engines.
Richard A Thackeray
Legendary Member
Guy Martin bought/rode one in India
They do the Continental GT at £5k, looks good (but pricy for an ancient Indian bike) to me. I like the look of this on Ebay, £2.6k, now my imagination is working, but I am I am an upright riding guy...............
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Drago
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- Suburban Poshshire
I've a perverse hankering for an Enfield diesel.
Vapin' Joe
Formerly known as Smokin Joe
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- Bare headed cyclist, Smoker
0-60 MPH takes longer than it takes a spacecraft to reach Mars. The army used them so that all their vehicles ran on the same fuel.
Sometimes I worry about you.
lutonloony
Über Member
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- torbay
I know legally they have to have indicators, but they look wrongThey do the Continental GT at £5k, looks good (but pricy for an ancient Indian bike) to me. I like the look of this on Ebay, £2.6k, now my imagination is working, but I am I am an upright riding guy...............
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[QUOTE 4615446, member: 45"]Have you looked at the Herald bikes?[/QUOTE]
Yes Paul, I've looked into them & remain very sceptical of future parts supply. It's a Chinese bike from a factory where l don't have faith that a bike will be the same one month to the next.
Herald in the UK, Mash in France, summat else in Poland, all the same bikes. When l see a 400cc bike for sale with 500cc emblazoned on the bodywork, alarm bells ring!
Yes Paul, I've looked into them & remain very sceptical of future parts supply. It's a Chinese bike from a factory where l don't have faith that a bike will be the same one month to the next.
Herald in the UK, Mash in France, summat else in Poland, all the same bikes. When l see a 400cc bike for sale with 500cc emblazoned on the bodywork, alarm bells ring!
[QUOTE 4615515, member: 45"]Yeah, I don't trust Chinese yet. They're supposed to be Suzuki engines in old Suzuki frames though, so can't be that bad.[/QUOTE]
I can't deny the aesthetic appeal of the Herald/Mash 400 (sleeved down Honda XBR500 I think) but after trawling the net I can only find ONE decent owners review. I am also put off by the Chinese 250 that came to the UK a couple of years back, an BMW RG1200 look-a-like, it got ace reviews, cost about £2.5K and sold. er, 60 then the importers pulled out and left people with no parts supply & with worthless bikes.
I have a workmate dead keen on buying a Herald so will report back, he will spend £2.5k on the 250, me, I'd spend the same amount on an older Suzuki Grass tracker. there is a 400 on Ebay that appears to have lost 40% of it's value in 10 months and 700 miles!
On the other hand, Barcelona is full of the things and they are obviously used for daily commuting................
I can't deny the aesthetic appeal of the Herald/Mash 400 (sleeved down Honda XBR500 I think) but after trawling the net I can only find ONE decent owners review. I am also put off by the Chinese 250 that came to the UK a couple of years back, an BMW RG1200 look-a-like, it got ace reviews, cost about £2.5K and sold. er, 60 then the importers pulled out and left people with no parts supply & with worthless bikes.
I have a workmate dead keen on buying a Herald so will report back, he will spend £2.5k on the 250, me, I'd spend the same amount on an older Suzuki Grass tracker. there is a 400 on Ebay that appears to have lost 40% of it's value in 10 months and 700 miles!
On the other hand, Barcelona is full of the things and they are obviously used for daily commuting................
keithmac
Guru
Royal Enfield every day over the cheap Chinese sh1te, your RE will be going long after the Chinese rubbish has broken beyond economic repair..
I would take a 20 year old Honda CB500 over any new Chinese offering.
Just because the engine looks like Suzuki or a Honda doesn't mean it actually is one. Some have Hongda stamped on them FFS.
I've seen over the last 10 years more and more cheap Chinese bikes arrive over here, none of our customers have ever bought a second one..
Even down to the plastic fairings, they seem to have a knack of making plastic more brittle than glass..
They are built to a price (very low it seems).
Lexmoto are just about passible as a useable bike but I certainly wouldn't buy one.
Just to say I'm not a "brand snob" by any means, but when you actually work on them you see how bad they really are.
I would take a 20 year old Honda CB500 over any new Chinese offering.
Just because the engine looks like Suzuki or a Honda doesn't mean it actually is one. Some have Hongda stamped on them FFS.
I've seen over the last 10 years more and more cheap Chinese bikes arrive over here, none of our customers have ever bought a second one..
Even down to the plastic fairings, they seem to have a knack of making plastic more brittle than glass..
They are built to a price (very low it seems).
Lexmoto are just about passible as a useable bike but I certainly wouldn't buy one.
Just to say I'm not a "brand snob" by any means, but when you actually work on them you see how bad they really are.
keithmac
Guru
They do the Continental GT at £5k, looks good (but pricy for an ancient Indian bike) to me. I like the look of this on Ebay, £2.6k, now my imagination is working, but I am I am an upright riding guy...............
That's a great bike for the money, that will be a comfortable upright riding postion.
What's the milage?.
recycling
Active Member
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- North somerset
That's exactly what people said about Hondas when they first started appearing in the early 70's. "Jap Crap" was what they were called and they would never last. It didn't quite work out that way.
10k miles.
But it doesn't look upright to me, looks like a wrist hurter. The proportions look just right though, think I will arrange to view next week.
