11 celebrities who ride Royal Enfield motorcycles

[Viny]

This doesn't bother us, because whatever you can get your hands on, we will always be able to use or ride better than you.

Ahem !!!
Agree 70cc motorcycles and meherans are generations ahead.
We are not able to use them or ride them

 

[BABA AGHORI]

Ahem !!!
Agree 70cc motorcycles and meherans are generations ahead.
We are not able to use them or rider them

I did tried Luna and Sunny decades back , I guess I was in 5th or 6th standard...

 

[Mirza Jatt]

There's no need to worry because on this end we have a huge gajjar to fill your hole that is constantly obsessed with us.

That's even better....use your gajjar to fill your own black hole.

 

[takeiteasy]

I owned these Royal Enfields for years (the CI engine) and it is seriously not worth your time. Mechanically the same as 1950s and unreliable (parts falling off).. May be, if Eicher can taste some success with RE? BTW, I read Mahindra is re-launching YEZDI/Jawa? If they launches 2 strokers (possibility - nil)..wow! then it's party time.

 

[Nalini]

Royal Enfield is a heavy beefy bike. The bike can go 150+ but honestly beyond 110-120 km speed it will start vibrating & you won't enjoy the bike & the pillion rider will start panicking.

This bike is not bought for speed. It’s loved for it’s classic look, ride quality & the feel. You will really feel like you are on a beast when you ride on it. And the sound of the bike is nostalgic. Most people will fall in love with the sound of the bike.

Another thing it's made for Indian road conditions where you rarely get to drive beyond 120 & it's done to avoid accidents. No co. would want to have negative publicity & accidents recorded for it's product. It will lose sales if accidents start to be registered continuously. But the best part is, it can easily be fine tuned & modified to suit your requirements, be it speed, style or a family requirement.

 

[KapitaanAli]

To be fair, they do make better quality for export markets and sell for higher prices.

And for the one saying it's old and British, get with the times:

 

[Nalini]

Watching Indians enthusiastically sell a British product as their own is fuckin hilarious. Poor bastards.

Stupid fellow stooping low to the class he belongs. People like you, just won't appreciate or give credit for anything Indian or Indian achievement. The Bike definitely originated from the British. But it's a Indian bike & co. now. Do you even know the history. The British Enfield last produced was a totally different bike from today's version. Only the looks slightly retained of the classic model matches relatively. Rest nothing is of British version today. The height, the brakes, Fuel injection, Engine, Twin spark, shocks, exhaust, headlamps, seats, styling, disks, looks everything has changed. The gears were on the right side & brakes on the left side in the British version opposite of the normal bikes. Today's gearbox is a 5 speed gearbox. There are also so many other models which is totally new & different from the classic model. They have absolutely no relation to any old British models & are not of British origin.

The Bullet has evolved from a four-valve engine with exposed valve-gear to the latest all-alloy unit construction engine with electronic fuel-injection. If not for India the world would not know of the legacy of the Royal Enfield. It would have died in the 60's itself

After independence, in 1949, the Indian Army ordered Royal Enfield Bullets for border patrol use and the company decided to open a factory in Madras because the orders were the biggest they ever received. In 1955, the 350 cc Bullets were sent from the Redditch factory in kit form for assembly in India, but Enfield India Ltd. soon developed the factory and produced complete motorcycles independently under licence because it was not viable to depend on the UK unit because it was Indian Army's order.

In 1955, Royal Enfield carried out some retooling and redesign at their UK’s Redditch plant, to modernise the Bullet, and in 1959 some changes were made to the gear ratios. These changes, however, were not incorporated by the Indian arm due to its commitment to supply the Indian Army. Thus the British and Indian production lines diverged, never to meet again.

The 500 cc model was discontinued in 1961. In 1962, the UK Company was sold and the Bullet discontinued and in 1967, the UK’s Redditch factory closed.

The Enfield India Ltd however survived with the local Army orders. Indian factory also struggled as orders started to decrease from the Army by the late 70’s, as they already had sufficient no.s in the Armed force. Due to the protectionist nature of the Indian economy, no need for improvement was apparent, and the brand somehow managed to survive into the 1990s essentially as a domestic Indian commuter bike.

The company also faced the difficult task of catering to a very diverse market with Japanese 100 cc bikes hitting the market in this era. Eicher took over Enfield India Ltd in 1994 & renamed the company as Royal Enfield Motors. Many management and production changes were made, with the production process being streamlined and excess capacity redistributed. The co. still had a long struggle. Without the large-scale Army/Law Enforcement orders to bail the company out, there was only the individual sales route in which the company had to perform if it were to survive at all.

They literally tried different things, introducing new models new colours from the traditional 'Bullet' look, available only in black, CDI electronic ignition, gas-charged shock absorbers. Alongside these developments, Austrian engine firm AVL was contracted to produce an all-alloy engine suitable as a drop-in replacement for the cast-iron block original engine (with design dating from 1955). Also seen was the introduction of a disc-brake on the front wheel as a factory option domestically.

There were only countable no.s in exports to the EU, just the few people who bought it for it’s legacy. Tighter European emission norms forced the Bullet Standard 350 to end 2007 as its last model year in the EU, so when on-hand stocks were all sold the British-design engined Bullet became no longer available new. All new models exclusively featured the AVL 'lean-burn' engine. The introduction of a five-speed gearbox meant that Royal Enfield could 'fix' one of the long-standing quirks of the Bullet design—the foot-brake is on the left side while the gearshift is on the right.

As a result of work spanning several years, a new set of engines was introduced in 2009. These were the unit construction engines (UCE). This was the turning point for the Royal Enfield. The 350 cc UCE found use in the domestic model Thunderbird Twin Spark in a configuration with two sparkplugs per cylinder, with integrated 5-speed left-shift gearbox. It has not been featured on any of the Bullet models, domestic or otherwise.

By 2011, the old cast-iron engine had been completely phased out, including in the Standard 350 model. Now all Royal Enfield bikes are only available with the all-aluminium UC engine.

The 500 cc UCE features fuel injection system, and has greater power than any Royal Enfield 500 cc motor. The 500 cc UCE, with an integrated five-speed gearbox, powers the current Bullet Classic model. Starting in 2009, this engine was available only in the EU to satisfy emissions regulations, but as of 2010 it is available in the United States under two frame models, the Bullet Classic C5, or the Bullet G5, which looks similar and shares paneling with the earlier AVL Electra models. In 2011 a third export model, the B5, was introduced combining the newer 500 cc UCE engine with the traditional Indian domestic tank and frame.

To summarize only the classic version was license manufactured in India. Rest all models are India's own. Today even the classic version is Indian because everything has changed except the old tank shape retained. Even that's much bulkier today & it's taller. So today if the British has to manufacture the Royal Enfield they have to get license from Royal Enfield India for the present models.

The first bike commissioned in India was the 350 cc powered Bullet manufactured in England and assembled in Madras (now Chennai) by the Royal Enfield UK company. Those days there was no Trademark Infringement big issues so the Indian factory started with the name Enfield India Ltd. Indians just retained the name for the love of the bike & also because it was the first bike of India just to give respect & acknowledgment.

The attachment is for such fools to understand when the bike really soared locally & really spread its popularity worldwide. Though the previous generation had a infatuation for this bike, It's less than a decade the present generation broke all records of the previous generation to reclaim the craze over this bike again in multifold.