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[Wheaters]

So, if you can get to your plugs easily, anyone ride a Bullet then stick with normal plugs.

I think we were both joking....

[Bullet Whisperer]

I was joking about the Iridium plugs - maybe a 5 mph increase in top speed is more realistic

[Harald]

I am very relieved that you do not also have new seats on the list of parts that ruin a Classic 500.
The factory seats are very uncomfortable, especially the pillion, and I changed them to classic RE seats from the 70's. They are much more comfortable to ride and more classic appearance.
However, I share your opinion, but we should take in mind that people are different and like different things. Moreover, if some people like it to ride such a ruined stuff, why not? There are even people that like riding colorful Japanese plastic bikes.

[papasmurf]

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[stinkwheel]

Each to their own.

What actually "Ruins" a bike is when people angle-grind the rear subframe and frame lugs off a bike with no regard to structural integrity, throw the airbox and mudguards in the bin then cock-up the fuelling.

You tend to find most Enfield modifications are a) Designed for the bike and b) Bolt-on and therefore reversible. Usually if you buy a tarts handbag of a bullet, it comes with all the bits they took off.

So it's a matter of taste. Arguably I've runined my 350. It's a total shitheap with rough, inexpertly fabricated homemade parts, a home-sprayed paintwork and plastic mudguards and a big hole drilled int he crankcase with a piece of copper pipe sticking out of it for a breather. It also has exhaust wrap so i don't burn my leg. I'm imminently going to fit more inexpwertly fabricated parts to make the subframe lighter.

[Rattlebattle]

Of course you need an iridium plug. Think of the weight saving of that skinny little electrode, worth at least 7.5 mph on top end. Also, as a precious metal it’ll surely double the long-term value of your RE.
It’s people who polish them that make me smile...

[Wheaters]

I was joking about the Iridium plugs - maybe a 5 mph increase in top speed is more realistic

Damn - I'm going to have to fit four of them now!

[Daiwiskers]

I was joking about the Iridium plugs - maybe a 5 mph increase in top speed is more realistic

Damn - I'm going to have to fit four of them now!

Don't forget you will need a air gap in each high tension lead! I think the flashing plug caps do the same thing

Then you will get to the roundabout and back before the record finishes

Do whatever you want to do with your bike it's yours

[Wheaters]

Never been a fan of those air gap devices that are supposed to extend the spark duration - I always set my plugs with a gap right at the end.

I found one of those "catalyst" things in the fuel tank of my 350, put there by a previous owner, probably in an attempt to stop the rampant exhaust valve seat recession the bike was suffering from when I bought it. It has a couple of balls of Plutonium or Kryptonite or something similar in a little metal gauze cage. These things are so powerful that bike goes just as well with it sitting in a drawer in the garage!

I've also got one of those magnetic things that are fitted to the fuel line, designed to magically align the fuel molecules just before the go into the carburettor. I keep it stuck to an old tenon saw hanging up on the garage wall. Same thing for those; once the fuel has been aligned, you can remove it from the fuel line because what's left in the tank teaches new petrol how to behave. It's a miracle!

[Andy C]

I ruined mine by putting a 612 conversion on it, and then adding a 5 speed box, and then, and then..

Think I get the jist of this thread, some folk do things to their bikes that appear a little odd / out of place, but I guess that at then end of the day it would be a pretty boring world if we were all the same.

Now what did I did I do with that exhaust wrap