Ducati & Enfield

[smeghead]

I have no idea what a Himalayan will cost but this looks very splendid. http://www.swmmotorcycles.co.uk/models/ ... super-dual
I had a quick shufty ont tinternet and it gets very favourable reviews.

[horobags]

the himalayan are going to be £4,500, those SWM's look interesting.

[Globs]

I have no idea what a Himalayan will cost but this looks very splendid. http://www.swmmotorcycles.co.uk/models/ ... super-dual
I had a quick shufty ont tinternet and it gets very favourable reviews.

That looks good. Still a vibey thumper with manual gears, wet feet, no storage and no weather protection tho LOL

[MrGrumpy]

That looks good. Still a vibey thumper with manual gears, wet feet, no storage and no weather protection tho LOL

Still, it's therefore a real bike for real bikers, not one of these namby pamby hairdryer scooters for poofters....

[wozza]

http://www.ducaticlassics.com/images/mo ... s/49/9.jpg

It would be lovely to see these again.

Beautiful.

[BenR]

Personally I can't see Audi letting go of ducati.

[horobags]

That looks good. Still a vibey thumper with manual gears, wet feet, no storage and no weather protection tho LOL

Still, it's therefore a real bike for real bikers, not one of these namby pamby hairdryer scooters for poofters....

, so its a real bike with adventure/slight off road capabilities. No scoot can do that????,,, hang on ... the new x-adv can!
but you can buy two R/E's for the price of an x-adv . Come on honda !! an sh300 with knobblies and a high level exhaust please.With a charlie Boorman lookalike sat on it on the advert. Would be a global smash!!!

[smeghead]

I have no idea what a Himalayan will cost but this looks very splendid. http://www.swmmotorcycles.co.uk/models/ ... super-dual
I had a quick shufty ont tinternet and it gets very favourable reviews.

That looks good. Still a vibey thumper with manual gears, wet feet, no storage and no weather protection tho LOL

I thought it would thump a bit but this review says it's smooth. I fact it's a very favourable review.
https://www.bennetts.co.uk/bikesocial/r ... -superdual

[millie-mail]

A few thoughts;
A bike built for a specific set of purposes or a bike built to steal a market? the bike cost about £1800 when released in India with no real competition. Add ABS, FI, and emissions work and we are at £4500 because, we are told, that the market can stand it. It would seem from the RE forum and scanning youtube, that problems with the Himalayan in India are still happening and seem to be many and varied, not helped by the inconsistencies of the dealers abilities to solve problems. This leads us to the R and D department responding to recurring issues and writing correction bulletins. This doesn't seem to be happening very successfully at the moment. I want to buy the Himalayan but I won't do until RE admit the problems and are transparent about the solutions. RE seem to be growing very quickly and have a mission statement for world domination but could be guilty of neglecting the small stuff. I don't think the Himalayan should have been released to the rest of the world until all the problems had been ironed out.

[horobags]

this is quite interesting-
https://www.rushlane.com/royal-enfield- ... 37993.html
R/E does have competition in India with Bajaj.