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#15698
On Sunday Bertie took his owner to the monthly ride out with the REOC, he was on his way to meet all of the other Enfield's, all the Enfield's gathered in the pub car park, the owners where mostly in the bushes leaking the yellow liquid, "That’s a funny colour, they all need an oil change" said Bertie, the other Enfield's laughed.
All of a sudden with a loud rumble a stranger pulled in, stopping sharp and falling on its stand the owner run for the bushes.
"Hello im Bertie and this is the gang, who are you ?" said Bertie, the stranger replied with his headlight in the air" Im Ralph, and English Enfield, Im English, your Indian, Im a real Enfield and your not..your just..well an immigrant". The gang coughed and spluttered, they were up in arms, some stalled on the spot " how dare he", they shouted.
All those with their steering locks off turned away from Ralph, Bertie piped up "well im as English as your are now, I may have been Indian but now im English", Ralph replied "that could never happen", with that Bertie snapped "if it was good enough for Freddy mercury its good enough for me, anyway your old and leak oil so there".
Ralph summoned his owner and rode of in a cloud of oily smoke, the gang rode off in the opposite direction, Ralph was spotted some time later sitting on the side of the road on a pool of his own oil.
By RancidPolecat
#15699
Not this old chestnut again. When I first joined the REOC I had an Indian bullet and "The Gun" was always full of "my English bike is better than your Indian bike" carp so I left the club. I then bought a Bradford on Avon built Interceptor 1A and rejoined the club only to be told by my some members of my local section with Indain built Enfields that my bike was noisy and anti-social so I left the club again.
Funny thing is my local AMC section love it!
By grunda 12
#15701
SORRY CHRIS!!!THATS TWICE IN THE SAME DAY don,t worry i have a little something for you for the agm at the reindeer next month i think you,ll like it oh and i,ll give you a slice of humble pie i don,t quite get ian,s sence of humour and i,m sure you don,t get mine,happy days p.s did you only do a week in ibitza?
By Bertie the Bullet
#15703
The Bertie story was inspired by a member commenting that his English Enfield was the real McCoy as they say, pathetic, never heard of it since, please put it to bed and vote this seperation of the Mag out at the AGM.. It don't matter what you ride, just enjoy the ride..
By Grumpy
#15704
I'm too stupid to find the information! It seems like a very bad move to me. They are all Enfields, to many they are not seen as "proper" Brit bikes, like the BSA, Triumph etc. We need to be strong and show that they are as good as anything else out there. Being devisive is not the answer, but I guess if the club goes that way then I guess the split will be easy to see. Those that are used and those that are just polished! (Pity there are no emoticons to show the last statement was tongue-in-cheek.)
By Beezabryan
#16191
Having a shitty reception from the then REOC nat sec I had contemplated this year to join REOC but now I've read this nonsense I will maintain the staus quo for pettiness, in-fighting & politicking I can do without, life is too short........ Beezabryan and his Madras Enfield will do what ithey has been doing for many years - riding independant of REOC and being welcomed at BSAOC!!!

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