2015 bullet to classic and back again.
Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2015 7:28 am
Dear all,
this has been a long time coming, but finally a 2015 Forest Green Bullet EFI has provisionally got my name on it, or at least my deposit. I was hooked some time ago in the 1990's after riding a Bullet in India. Only now do time and resources allow me to finally get my hands on one. But, inevitably, I have some questions being new to Enfields. I've sat on a lot, listened to a lot and done a lot of reading, but the model names do confuse me a little. I quite fancied a Classic battle green (well, I'm an old fashioned sort of guy), but the kids would kill me as they wanted to ride pillion to school on dad's new noisy motorbike (it's only 500 yards down the road, but the principle is important, even though I would have to make two trips), so I considered getting a long seat for it. Then I looked at the standard Bullet, which of course has the long seat anyway. Then I looked back at the 'Classic' and wondered why the price difference? It seems to be the same chassis and engine, and the only differences I could see are the battery cover, seat, colour scheme and rear mudguard. Am I missing something? Could you change the 'Bullet' style to the 'Classic' style and back again with just a few bolt-on parts and if so, why the £500 price difference between them?
Also, I assume in the Hitchcocks catalogue, the 2015 'Bullet' and 'Classic' comes under the B5 EFI compatibility?
Many thanks for any answers to these puzzling questions,
Dean
this has been a long time coming, but finally a 2015 Forest Green Bullet EFI has provisionally got my name on it, or at least my deposit. I was hooked some time ago in the 1990's after riding a Bullet in India. Only now do time and resources allow me to finally get my hands on one. But, inevitably, I have some questions being new to Enfields. I've sat on a lot, listened to a lot and done a lot of reading, but the model names do confuse me a little. I quite fancied a Classic battle green (well, I'm an old fashioned sort of guy), but the kids would kill me as they wanted to ride pillion to school on dad's new noisy motorbike (it's only 500 yards down the road, but the principle is important, even though I would have to make two trips), so I considered getting a long seat for it. Then I looked at the standard Bullet, which of course has the long seat anyway. Then I looked back at the 'Classic' and wondered why the price difference? It seems to be the same chassis and engine, and the only differences I could see are the battery cover, seat, colour scheme and rear mudguard. Am I missing something? Could you change the 'Bullet' style to the 'Classic' style and back again with just a few bolt-on parts and if so, why the £500 price difference between them?
Also, I assume in the Hitchcocks catalogue, the 2015 'Bullet' and 'Classic' comes under the B5 EFI compatibility?
Many thanks for any answers to these puzzling questions,
Dean