Royal Enfields From India, Anyone Had One? Any Good?

Yep they are ceasing production of the bullet 500. They are launching a tribute version at the end of the run. It looks stunning and as I understand it will be in the UK in August.

 

4 figure number there, hope there’s a decimal point in there
Ken.

 

When they throw the tooling out, some guys will be in the skip and before you know it....on Tik Tok you will see a couple of Indians squatting in the dust cobbling Enfields together with an hammer and pair of pliers.
Ken.

 

That pretty much sums up what the British bike manufacturers tried to stuff bikers with for years, same old same old...until the Orientals arrived and stuffed our bike industry.
Ken.

 

Well...I guess we are on a Triumph forum so the audience is biased.
I didn't like the 865 scrambler that I ride around on for 3 months some years back as a loan bike.
For me it was quite bland and it was v impractical...no luggage capacity even for a trip to the shops....and of course the high pipes made me wonder why they bothered fitting pillion pegs at all...at least Enfield havent even pretended it's possible to carry a passenger on their trials offering.
No doubt the new generation Scramblers are ideal off roaders ( not).

 

You could always try looking for one of these rare beasts A TR65T Tiger Trail

 

Excellent...long time since I've seen one...rare even when new.
I'd buy it if only I could remember the number of my Swiss bank account.

 

Not everyone has the same ability to ride off road as some in videos do.
Ken.

 

I reckon Triumph could be really top dog if they take over where Royal Enfield are leaving off and developed some 500 singles with all the classic looks of the originals but all the modern tech and Triumph quality as they’ve done already with the present classics. Yes they’d cost twice as much as the REs but given the improvement in quality of materials & therefore confidence in reliability I’m sure there’s an eager market... me for one !

 

I’d buy a nice 500 single scrambler type ,40 to 50 hp would be enough, I had a Honda xl 500 which was a fun bike.

 

Don’t know anything about the quality etc.

But visually it looks good to me,from the pictures

http://www.mash-motors.fr/en/motos-650-cc/46487-mash-x-ride-classic-650-.html

 

Mash have a respectable name, made in France with chinese engines similar to SWM built in Italy with either chinese or Husky motors, for throwing down country lanes instead of ruining your best bike I suppose it would do

 

My riding buddy has one and it’s great for country lanes and B roads

 

All these bikes like mash, SWM, Benelli, have chinese backing and produced engines based on old Honda XL and Suzuki 125, there is much more to come as BSA name has been purchased by Mahindra , But I think for country lanes you don't need a lot of money spending on one, if you are set on an Enfield go for it at least you can get parts.

 

Nice Bikes....but two buddies have sold the Enfields after short time...to many overheat problems and some qualtity problems....a extra minus ..its hard to get spare parts here in germany. You will get all....but you have to wait.
Maybe its interesting...the Jawa motorcycles from Europe...not from India.

https://www.jawa.eu/jawa-350-ohc--2

 

Fantic, another name from the 70s do a scrambler 500, 150kg , most of the bike is made in Italy but the engine is Chinese, I’ve not seen one in the flesh but they don’t look bad ,