enfiled bullet

Hi all,

Just been out for a long late evening ride round the island's quietest unlit
roads. It's a lovely night, warmish, clear, and a full moon across the
water.

I have had this 350 bullet for about six weeks. It is utter heaven to ride.
It is perfectly suited to
these winding country and coastal roads and hills, handles faultlessly, has
good lights, and the sound of it gently thumping along is something else. As
with most engines it runs beautifully in the denser wetter evening air, and
is very responsive to tiny control changes.

I know I am waxing lyrical here tonight, but I have to say that in 36 years
of riding in all conditions and many types of bike, (including 3 yrs as a
london courier), this old (well new really enfield is giving me more
pleasure than any other bike I have owned.

Anyone who isn't chasing horse power and wants a bike with character and
which needs owner input i totally reccomend an enfield.

I am always going to have one of these in the garage, definitely!!

richard
isle of wight

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Moi

Until approximately 10,000 miles.

When the crankpin snaps.

DAMHIK,IJDOK?

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets
and Ducati Race Engineer.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

There's a guy who rides one the opposite way to me when I cross the
Humber bridge when I go to work.It sounds beaut and he has a
certain,"Karma" about him.I'm beginning to suspect you have found the
same ;-)

http://www.f2motorcycles.ltd.uk/royalenfield.html

PS
My Karma is in equilibrium,
http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/cx500/cx500.html
http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/lazarus/lazarus.html

"I cannot attain perfection,but I can maintain it"

 

Who cares?

 

Wotcha.

Eeek - I should be on my fifth crankpin now then.
Having said that, the thing ain't on the road at the moment.
Changed the main bearings earlier in the year, had all the frame and bits
powder coated . . . . . and just
ain't got around to putting it all back together yet.

 

Come on.Also as stated it's been modded
Glass half full or half empty?

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Shep©

The only engine mod has been to fit a new one after the aforementioned
crankpin failure. A very common problem, from what I hear.

Have no illusions, they're fun to ride, but they are pretty crap.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets
and Ducati Race Engineer.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, ^..^ Lone Wolf

D'you know, I *thought* that might drag a response out of you? ;^)

*Coff*

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets
and Ducati Race Engineer.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Shep©

Are you a bit thick, or just doing an impression?

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets
and Ducati Race Engineer.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

Oh dear.no need to get testy.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Shep©

NAHAY?

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets
and Ducati Race Engineer.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

Heh.Heh.If they are,"Fun to Ride" how can they be,"Pretty Crap"?

My life is all full of fun

Break the mirror Unky,break the mirror

 

At least he can get his fucking encoding right, so his posts don't
appear with =20 for every fucking line feed. Sort it out, will ya?

--
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..'_/_|_\_'. Ace (brucedotrogers a.t rochedotcom)
\`\ | /`/ GSX-R1000K3
`\\ | //' BOTAFOT#3, SbS#2, UKRMMA#13, DFV#8, SKA#2
`\|/`
`

 

I'd try fitting a lighter weight piston too, to lessen some of the
stresses on that crank pin.

 

You've already changed it, you slick bastard.

--
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..'_/_|_\_'. Ace (brucedotrogers a.t rochedotcom)
\`\ | /`/ GSX-R1000K3
`\\ | //' BOTAFOT#3, SbS#2, UKRMMA#13, DFV#8, SKA#2
`\|/`
`

 

Nope. Your previous posts had

Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Whereas they now have

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

I suspect your newsreader is picking up the value from the post to
which it's replying and just using that. Must be a setting to control
it somewhere, but I've never used Gravity.

--
_______
..'_/_|_\_'. Ace (brucedotrogers a.t rochedotcom)
\`\ | /`/ GSX-R1000K3
`\\ | //' BOTAFOT#3, SbS#2, UKRMMA#13, DFV#8, SKA#2
`\|/`
`

 

If the art of polite and gentlemanly conversation fails you can always
resort to insults....Oh you have...again.

 

Lets' get this right.

This is a new bike, as in recently manufactured. Unless they're using
the same casting techniques as 35 years ago I don't think it'll be a
problem.

It's probably cheaper to just replace the engine with a brand new one if
it breaks.

 

An Enfield is not a modern bike by any means. Don't Enfield 350s use a
plunger type oil pump and bolt up cranks? That's not modern at all, and
as for me suggesting improving things a little... why not? They already
do nice crank kits and stuff.

Seems like a bit of a waste that does, why would you want to chuck away
something you could fix?

 

Wicked Uncle Nigel came up with the following;:

Nope, they're pug ugly crap ...