On the road again…..just means that I am back to blogging about this journey…the quest for an Enfield.
So let me start by explaining why there has been a lull in posts in the last year. Honestly…I got distracted by other things like life….So i have spent some time fixing my BMW and finally got my full drivers license. Now the wife and I can ride together.
As I might have mentioned before I am trying to convince my wife to learn to ride a bike and then the plan is to buy an Enfield for her. We are making progress and now debating what colour we should get. So I (or we) are closer to getting an Enfield. The other factor is finance….got to find a gap in the budget for the extra bike…all in good time I suppose.
I have realised that the Enfield is one of those bikes that I would like to have several variants of. Starting with the Classic, I would like to have it in various colours…Military, Maroon, Cyan, Chrome and Maroon, oh and why not the Desert Storm just for good measure. I would also like to a have a Cafe Racer version, either the factory one from Enfield (hopefully soon) or one with an after market kit. Then strangely enough I would also like a Trial/Scrambler version just to mess around on. Is this too much to ask….I think my bank manager would say so.
I recently went on a business trip to Toronto. Is was a great trip…besides meeting Rodriguez
I chatted to the owner. Turns out that it was brought across to Canada by an Indian family. They had done the gear shifter conversion to comply with Canadian traffic law. But seemly had not ridden it much as it only had a few thousand miles on it even though it is an early 90’s bike. The guy picked it up for a ridiculous price, something like R 9000. As you can see the bike is in great shape.
This brings me to another point which I am sure I have mentioned before. I have been involved with the Gauteng Royal Enfield Owners club (https://www.facebook.com/REsouthafrica?ref=stream). Even though I do not own an Enfield, I am always invited to their outings and functions. To me this demonstrates the kind of people that own Enfields. Not an exclusive club.Whenever I meet an Enfield owner we get lost in conversation about the history and the charm of the bike.
