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Update on the Royal Enfield WTB
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Recently I posted a query about a '95 Bullet 500 for Cdn$5000.
Seller says it's got 12k Km on it, never had any motor work.
A few days ago I saw it posted on a local buy&sell site, still
asking $5k. From the picture it looks something like this,
except in black:
I phoned the guy and quoted some comments from this forum,
especially the part about needing a top end rebuild after 15k Km.
He hinted that he might take less, so I thought about offering him
$4000. Still seems like a lot of money, but every time I watch some
movie or TV show about old times, such as Foyle's War where someone's
riding around on a '30s or '40s motorcycle I get this strange yearning
for a bike like that.
I know it's too slow for highway use, but my route to work is 15 Km
to work at 50 mph max. I've already got a Virago 250 for commuting,
but somehow the Japanese seem to have engineered all the character
out of their bikes; they're so well designed that they're almost
too perfect, like some kind of appliance.
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