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[Nitrowing]

Talk about looking on the bright side!

Whoever considers the time it would take to remove the crankshaft of the car you’re about to buy!

Of my over 25 bikes in 50 years the biggest repair job I’ve ever needed to do was an alternator.
Think problems and you’ll get them. Fiddle and you’ll get them. Fixing it when it ain’t broke and it will break!
What’s the motorcycle equivalent hypochondria?

Exactly. Looking at how simple it is to repair a brand new bike concerns me - it shouldn't need any work!
Any bike that needs more than a highly strung 2 stroke 250cc is... well... I'm trying to think of something polite... a failure.
Why not look at something that should be simple, like changing chain & sprockets - I'm getting rid of the Electra before this happens

[Presto]

A good few of my past bikes were 'highly strung' two strokes - all of which gave no trouble.
One had crankcase full of petrol after being left for months unused when it became mine. Siphoned out the fuel and it started third kick!
I only wish there were road strokers still available now!

[Wheaters]

What’s the motorcycle equivalent hypochondria?

Keep fixing it until it’s broke?

[Nitrowing]

What’s the motorcycle equivalent hypochondria?

take-my-tools-away-itis

[windmill john]

Think problems and you’ll get them. Fiddle and you’ll get them.

If I listened to everyone on here, I wouldn’t have bought my Classic 500. Maybe I’m an ostrich, but I’m hoping it goes on for ever before I have to do something.

Let’s be honest, motorcyclists should be locked up. How many people have bought new bikes and immediately fitted an after market silencer. Kerching kerching, I hear the money hitting the bin. My specialism is buying a bike for £1800, spending £500 on it and end up selling for £1200.... bigger kerchings and I need a doctor

Oh, on big jobs that shouldn’t be, alternator belt adjustment on a BMW R1100RS. Similar design to a GS but a much longer job!

I could have been watching TV rather than entertaining these two in a small pool I made:

[rustygman]

I think this bike will make a really nice back road traveller. The 650 twins are proving to be reliable and well made and the Himalayan after some initial teething troubles is proving a sturdy workhorse. I think we need to move on from the iron barrel stories and accept times have moved on and Royal Enfield are a serious company producing bikes that appeal to a certain type of person. Other choices are out there so all those ready to criticise performance and reliability might want to head to the local honda dealer. Also £4k list price in the days when a racing bicycle can cost double that is reasonable value in my book.

[PeteF]

I think the most significant change with the new engine is the balance shaft. It's something the Japs have been doing for decades on singles (and twins) It makes an engine SO much smoother. If it works I'll be swapping my 500 for one.

[Rushour]

Presto - I dont think that the folks at Bruntinghthorpe who designed and developed one of the finest modern 650 ( and best selling ) bikes built so far are that worried about the woeful ramblings of us lot of old farts on this forum - pre-sale orders of the 350 are very very optimistic according to my local dealer. Royal Enfield Worldwide sales are huge and the company as a whole could buy Triumph many times over. Lets sit and watch the Meteor sales thrive ( when ) it gets to our shores - I'm happy to eat these words if proven wrong. On another note - many folks moaned about the advertised BHP figures of the Himalayan - and yet its been a very popular bike - again out selling all previous models.

[windmill john]

pre-sale orders of the 350 are very very optimistic according to my local dealer.

Would any dealer say different.

I'm happy to eat these words if proven wrong

Love you love you love you for using the correct tense of proven, one of my pet hates. Less, sorry, few people get it right.

[Rushour]

I suspect it was spell checker