Stan, Triumph, BSA, and Norton, had zip to do with Royal Enfeild. In a matter of fact the last known association of any of them was Norton/ Viller's/ Triumph, prior to the worker's cooperative splitting them up in the mid 70's, just making a lame attempt to keep Triumph going. I was the parts manager at the worlds largest Triumph dealer at the time, and remember all this well. Royal Enfield stopped production after they were in trouble in the late 60's with a ridiculas use of the Indian name,here in the US hence Indian / Enfeild. I had a 68 Enfield 750 Interceptor--neat bike, smooth running, handled pretty good, and was fast. The parts situation caused me to unload it. Now the back assword people in India, had a 250, 350 model that thay were producing, and for some stupid reason never caught wind of the Enfield plant in England closing, so they just kept on producing the Bullet. I have no idea where they came up with the money to keep on operating, ( the Indian government must have fronted the denaro's ) but this is the reason why the bike still lives. I rode a Ural, and it is more phehistoric than the India Enfields. Now if you want a real gutless BMW lookalike ride, find yourself a Japanese Murushu, or a Chinese Shin Chang. Both copies of the pre war BMW opposing twins. Slugs at best, much like the Ural. ______________ |[ ] [ ] [ ]\ | | | | ~~~ ~||-(())----(())-| Terry-- 74 Campmobile- (Clementine) 85 GL- (Delilah) 86 BMW 325 ES- (Eva) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "In life, it is much better to want something you cannot have--- Than to have something you can't get rid of" (T.K.) |
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