Sunday, April 5, 2009

Choosing a Royal Enfield

Royal Enfield - Built like a Gun goes like a Bullet

So you have decided to buy a Royal Enfield and dont know which one to choose? I have gone to through the same dilemma. Here is a Guide to Buying a Royal Enfield.

Royal Enfield has three variants.
1. Iron Cast.
2. AVL.
3. UCE.

If following are your reasons for buying a Enfield read on.
1. You love that dug dug sound old bullets make.
2. You want to just own a Royal Enfield and are not particular about the sound.

If you fell in love with the bullet for that old beat. Dont even think about a AVL or a UCE engine. You need a Iron Cast. No matter what you do to a AVL or UCE. It will never give you the best a Iron Cast can give. People try things like Short silencer and Gold star. Please don't waste your time on any of these. AVL and UCE are very high revving engines. To get that old dug dug beat you need a low revving engine like Iron Cast. Now even in Iron casts you have couple of choices.

Standard 350 / Electra 4s / Electra 5s - If bike is post 2001 it will most probably have a catalytic converter and/or a long silencer. If you neutralize the converter and change the silencer to a old one, It will give you the good old beat.

500 - I have used this bike twice for Test Ride. Personally I was not impressed. But people say it is your ne













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