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It would be interesting to know why he quit:-

http://auto.economictimes.indiatimes.co ... t/53468413

Royal Enfield design director quits after 20-month stint: Report

The 60-year-old designer, who has previously worked with companies like Volkswagen, Ducati joined Royal Enfield in November 2014 and was based out of company's England office.

ETAuto | Jul 30, 2016, 09.12 PM IST

NEW DELHI: Royal Enfield design director, Pierre Terblanche, has reportedly quit the Chennai-based motorcycle manufacturer after a short stint of 20 months.

The 60-year-old designer, who has previously worked with companies like Volkswagen, joined Royal Enfield in November 2014 and was based out of company's England office.

As reported by an industry magazine, the exact reason behind him leaving the company is still not clear. Pierre has designed motorcycles like Ducati Multistrada, HyperMotard, X132 Hellcat Speedster to name a few. He has also worked with the famous Massimo Tamburini an Italian designer behind MV Augusta, Ducati, Cagiva.

Maybe his ideas were sa bit too advanced for the indian manufactures still basiclly following on from redditch ideas . If brit bikes were so great how come they dont make em still. Look at bsa a modern looking bike never went into production still pumped out the same old stuff, see where that got them got to move with the times.

Maybe at 60yo he simply decided to retire?

In my opinion, retro sells. Royal Enfield seems to appeal to a certain market (Doing very well at it I hasten to add). So, if you start designing bikes that are outside the Companies desired ethos (and the designs are consistently rejected), then your position at that Company becomes untenable.

Terblanche's first design for RE is the Himalayan which hasn't been out long enough to have been rejected by the (home) market and hasn't yet been exported to the West so I doubt he left because his position became untenable.

Perhaps he had one of those 'willing to work anywhere' contract clauses but later decided he wasn't.

From today's Sunday Telegraph

"British gun maker Enfield", so what else did The Telegraph get wrong?



Chassis designers needed at Royal Enfield UK

https://www.recruitmentinmotorsport.co. ... l-enfield/

Terblanche is South African, perhaps his work permit visa ran out



Happened to a uni professor merikan mate of mine, silly-b forgot to renew it and went home for thanksgiving, customs wouldn't let him back in - lost his job, everything.

Lee Enfield was a gun maker i thought, before enfield went on to build cycles..
Made like a gun, or am i mistaken?