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Looks like one RE Himalayan buyer is not a happy bunny:-
http://www.india.com/auto/engineer-drag ... s-2079517/

Engineer drags Royal Enfield to court over unreliable Himalayan; Lists 40 manufacturing defects


Failed to get any answers from Royal Enfield, an engineer takes the company to consumer court over manufacturing defects in his Royal Enfield Himalayan.



By Charanpreet Singh | Published: April 28, 2017 4:48 PM IST

Need subtitles please. The English spoken is on par with the bike it seems.

Cleggy it is subtitled you just have to select them. (Bottom of video screen right hand side small rectangle 4th icon in from the left.)

Blimey Cleggy, not too difficult to understand what the man was saying but I have listened to the clip very carefully for you and for no charge I will translate. He said the bike was a pile of crap.

An engineer eh? Leaking petrol from "carburettor" be alleges. I thought that they had fuel injection.

Beamish the ones for the Indian market are carburettor, as far as I am aware.

Ah back to the quality control standards of the Electra-X I see, letting some lemons through with the peaches... A.

Royal Enfield were very brave I think going away from what they know, I know I am looking forward to owning a Himalayan.
I know my bike was due April but now the earliest date is June due to Enfield making sure that the Euro IV bikes were at the correct quality and all faults seen rectified.
Over 3000 bikes have been sold in India and yes I guess a few suffered first run issues lucky they did the development for us but reading they did repair and recall the failures although quietly.

No, I think the history of the UCE models tells us that you will be doing the remaining development work on the EFI Himalayan for us. I'll maybe buy one in 2020.