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I will have bored many of you with this already, so this is just for personal diaryism, really.
On 12th April, I ordered a 500cc Royal Enfield Bullet motorcycle (much like this one) from F2 Motorcycles of Banbury. For the uninitiated, this is a 1950s British bike that continued to be built in Madras, India, after the Redditch factory closed.

I believe it will arrive at F2 around the 28th April, and I will get my grubby hands on it about two weeks later when Dave Angel, the proprietor, has done some preparatory work on it (rustproofing, fitting electronic ignition, fitting a different seat, etc). 12th May has never looked so far away.

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[frodomorris.livejournal.com]

What brrm said. My Bandit replacement though pulls like a tractor from idle, but is hardly conventional in any sense of the word, except it does have the usual number of wheels. If we take 'conventional machine' to be a Japanese four-cylinder commuter bike (500-650 cc), then this Enfield will pull better from low revs, but stop pulling a long time earlier than the Jap. I expect that the riding position is more upright too, which might make you feel more exposed at high speeds (although a lot of Jap commuters come in a naked - no fairing - version, which doesn't offer any wind protection either).