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Spares for Royal Enfield Classic

Building a list of spares that you need to carry with a motorcycle from the Royal Enfield Classic series. This list can be used by not only the Classics, but other models like Classic 350, Classic 500, Classic Chrome, Classic Desert Storm, Classic Battle Green and all of the Bullet series.

Carry Spares for Royal Enfield Classic
Riding in the hills

On a longer ride, you’ll need everything that you carry on a short ride as listed below. More than that, you may need spares like clutch plates or something else. But, given that the UCE engined motorcycles are still in production, any thing major can be fixed by heading to the nearest RE workshop. If you’re the true DIY type of person, here’s a list.

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Royal Enfield Bullet 500 Specifications

Replicating the  Royal Enfield Bullet 500 specifications here because over time these go away from the official website. Last time around, I learnt this the hard way because I lost most of the AVL engined Royal Enfield Thunderbird 350 related information when Royal Enfield decided to phase it out, not only from the showrooms, but also from their website.

This page will keep getting updated as and when I find useful information to be used by owners of this model.

Why the interest and the special treatment to this motorcycle?

Just booked one today.

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Royal Enfield Himalayan Odyssey 2007

The Himalayan Odessy is back for 2007 after a great ride in the past couple of years. Though it is not exactly hardcore to many ‘adventurers’, citing many reasons like having backup vehicles and  mechanics, I’ve met a few riders who really enjoyed being on the Odessy. {mosimage}This is because people who would never have been able to go on such rides by themselves, find this a really good alternative. for the exact same reasons, some others would refrain from going. All the more reason to go if you have just bought one of the those new Machismo AVL 500s. There is no better place to put all the truck tractor loads of torque to better use, than in the challenging terrain of THE mountains. More over, who wouldn’t want to blast up the dirt tracks of the Himalayas when you can be sure of you luggage being safe in the truck behind.

The following is the press release from Royal Enfield regarding the Himalayan Odessey 2007. Continue reading Royal Enfield Himalayan Odyssey 2007

The fabrication of a café racer – ThunderDUCK!

It all started off one day when I decided that I wanted to build a café racer kit on the Thunderbird. I had planned on the direction I would be taking with this project and finalized (at least in my mind) as to how the bike would finally look. This project took a step towards reality when over a session of beer and mindless doodling on Scottish Pub’s tissue paper; Prashanth told me that he had a café racer tank with him. Continue reading The fabrication of a café racer – ThunderDUCK!