I only saw two Royal Enfields in India. Mostly 125 Japanese brands. On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Doug Brewer <d...@alphoto.com> wrote: > On 9/8/12 9:22 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: >> >> >> I *loved* my 1986 Honda VFR. Wish I'd been able to keep it in addition >> to the Triumph but it just wasn't possible. Honda made every redesign >> of that bike worse after 86-87: More and more electronic gizmos, >> linked brakes, pseudo VTEC valve system... and now it's a 1200cc >> behemoth with shaft drive. Oh yes, and they got uglier every year >> after the 86-87 model. >> >> The only Honda I ever lusted after was the RC-30 but I'm glad I was >> never able to afford one because they apparently were better race >> bikes than street bikes: the hand-laid fiberglass was beautiful but >> much more porous than the cheaper machine-made fiberglass (or ABS >> plastic), so the paint bubbled and peeled after a few years; two-ring >> pistons are nice for getting minimum friction/maximum horsepower but >> they let the bike burn oil at a prodigious rate. >> >> I'd love to get something silly like a Royan Enfield for tooling >> around Boston. >> > > I pondered a Royal Enfield a few years back, and still wouldn't mind having > one. They are gloriously weird. > > An '86 Interceptor 500 would go nicely in my garage. Great balance of power > to weight, they figured out the valve thing by then, and the red/white/blue > color scheme is still distinctive. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions.
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