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[Tail End Charlie]

Not legal though, is it? That vanity plate might be from a vehicle from the early 70s but unless the vehicle itself was registered before the cut off date of 1 Jan 1971, the plate isn't road legal. I expect he puts a legal yellow reflective plate on to get through MOTs. As for "the look", he seems to be getting away with it up to now. At least it's taxed and MOT'd.

I suspect there are worse things happening in Accrington.

 

[craigwend]

I suspect there are worse things happening in Accrington.

The Fabled anagram = Ignorant CC!

 

[Tail End Charlie]

The Fabled anagram = Ignorant CC!

You misunderstand, I meant there are far worse things for the police to worry about in Accrington, in fact anywhere else. And Accy is anything but ignorant, in fact I find him one of the better posters on CC and this place would be a lot poorer without him.

 

[Tail End Charlie]

If you look very carefully in the reflection on the tank, you can't see the photographers face 😱, legend has it he also casts no shadow*...


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I would never have considered zooming in like that! Top marks for observation.

 

[Gillstay]

I would think its ideal for pottering along taking stuff in rather than dashing up the arse of the next vehicle. Be cheap to run as well.

Hope he has fun on it.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I suspect there are worse things happening in Accrington.

The bike was spotted in 10 miles away from Accrington Clitheroe.😉

 

[fritz katzenjammer]

I’ve had an Indian Enfield, a 93 model. Of the couple of dozen bikes I had over 47 years of riding it was possibly the sweetest thing to ride. It was also very cheap to run and very reliable… just don’t ask it to blaze down an expressway in the fast lane, it was more of a back road or city bike. I kept it for 17 years and put 76000km on it and never saw the inside of the motor.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Has it got an oil leak?

It's a Royal Enfield not a Triumph.

 

[fritz katzenjammer]

It's a Royal Enfield not a Triumph.

I’ve had both. The Enfield leaked at all of the timing case screws until I took each one out and sealed it, some took several tries and some never really stopped, added to the other minor ’mistings’ the engine put out you always had a fine oily stickiness to the drivetrain. The transmission didn’t help in spite of being packed with a mixture of 90 weight gear oil and grease. But it was a minor thing and easily ignored, after all my late model Kawasaki Ninja needed new camshafts every 20000km.

The Triumph on the other hand only stopped leaking once. It was at the end of a particularly long winter and it had simply runout of oil. Yup… it had peed it all out, slowly, over the winter. Engine, primary case and transmission, all of it. Quite the mess.

I was once asked why I didn’t pull it apart and put modern seals in it, but the bike was original and had never been apart, as it ran perfectly I just couldn’t bring myself to disturb the old lump.

 

[steveindenmark]

Has it got an oil leak?

Not this model

 

[steveindenmark]

Royal Enfields have done the Skoda trick. 40 years ago you would not touch a Skoda. Look at them now.

I have the Royal Enfield 350 Classic. Its a lovely bike to ride .

The bike in the photo is a bit blingy for me.

 

[fritz katzenjammer]

Not this model

Brilliant! It only took 90 plus years of development and engineering teams on two continents to cure the Bullet of it’s incontinence.

Will wonders never cease!

I wonder what the gods have in store for us next? A reliable Harley?