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[apparently lucky eddie]

Do it Grunda - you know it makes no sense at all! You need a beaten up old A10 bleeding her vital fluids onto the garage floor to help you remember the old days when there were real Royal Oilfields that sounded like they were powered by baked beans, not like these new fangled chicken madras powered abominations.

[Norm]

Eddie, you are going to ruffle a few feathers now

[grunda 12]

eddie,you must be a mind reader i have a keen interest in the A10 LIKE THE BIT ABOUT WHITE SOCKS!

[ed.lazda]

I'm not an old duffer. Just 57, but I have been a grumpy old git since I was about 35. It's much more fun.

[James BLT]

A couple months under 30 here. Had my Bullet for 4 years. Love her to bits. Massive Grin Factor. Got her looking so very pretty after lots of little changes. Sadly though, she rarely impresses young, pretty girls (like every boy on his motorbike silently hopes for). But pretty much every time I come to a stop in London, I can see or hear an "old duffer" admiring the bike.

[Zelda]

I'm 25 and have been riding Enfields' for 3 years now, and still will be when I'm an 'old duffer'!

[rustygman]

hang in there zelda - if you are only 25 now royal enfield may have released a nice big twin by the time you hit old duffer status.

[Paul M H]

well I'm knocking on 60 but still ride like Im 16 according too the wife. I own two bullets one ordinary four speed 500 used daily for work and the other is one soupped up 535 bullet with five speed box done in cafe racer style with ace bars bar end mirrors alloy tank and seat unit plus rear sets TT100s Goldstar exhaust Etc very similar too the hitchcocks kit one which my wife says I got enough blue slips too paper our bedroom with. Best laugh lately was when I parked outside a pub in Highgate and as I walked though the door a barman said sorry we Dont serve bikers in here until I took my helmet off he the swiftly changed his mind. When I asked why he said I thought you were one of those local hooligans.

[Bare]

I guess I have to admit to being an old duffer at 70. After starting up on Matchlesses, A10 Spitfire Scramblers, GoldStars, 500 Triumph Scrambler, Cheney Triumph, a couple of Sprites, Norton P11, a Grumph 500, Greeves 380, Indian Velocette, and Nortless Manx, and three modern Triumphs, at least, that's the English stuff,I have finally reverted to a real duffer bike, My 2011 RE G5.
I won my first racing trophy on a 1962 Greeves Square Barrel, but that was a loaner.
Anyway I've been loving this Classic bike as it has given me nearly 13,000 miles of riding without having to remember what the Good Old Days (GOD) were really like! I don't have to fiddle with it if I don't want to. I have wanted to and built a bit of a cafe racer out of it and most of the miles are done in the SOCal mountains. It's a great bike, but definitely I would passed off as a duffer bike in the GOD. ya know, the Bullets, M20s, G80s, EZ2s and all that fine duffer stuff. Now I guess I are one. Better that than the alternative

[MadMike]

Old Duffer? Wossat a steam train? No not me I am, apparently, MAD.