Best BMW for around the world these days

[Zombie Master]

These 2 links would add up to a pretty decent but expensive Enfield .

Then you could start on a decent set of forks, and the brakes....For the price of the kit you could buy a nice use Shitsuki 500 air cooled twin and leave this thing for dead. Of course you wouldn't look as cool or retro, but you would be riding a much better motorcycle.

Enfield handle surprisingly well for a light bike, forks ? ,,,, the correct amount and weight of oil helps a lot. Brakes ? They have a twin leading shoe which works pretty well when set up right or buy the Hitchcocks single disc for about $650.

The trouble with Enfields is they look good and sound good and with kits like that ..VERY GOOD .Suzukis are good , excellent in fact, but they will always be Suzukis .Strange eh ?

Who stole the Velo muffler! The Enfield will never be a Velocette....strange aye ?

[Sibbo]

These 2 links would add up to a pretty decent but expensive Enfield .



Then you could start on a decent set of forks, and the brakes....For the price of the kit you could buy a nice use Shitsuki 500 air cooled twin and leave this thing for dead. Of course you wouldn't look as cool or retro, but you would be riding a much better motorcycle.

Enfield handle surprisingly well for a light bike, forks ? ,,,, the correct amount and weight of oil helps a lot. Brakes ? They have a twin leading shoe which works pretty well when set up right or buy the Hitchcocks single disc for about $650.

The trouble with Enfields is they look good and sound good and with kits like that ..VERY GOOD .Suzukis are good , excellent in fact, but they will always be Suzukis .Strange eh ?

ZM wrote

Who stole the Velo muffler! The Enfield will never be a Velocette....strange aye ?

The ACE puts out 37 bhp at the back wheel and having ridden both my old Venom and my Bullet I agree they are worlds apart to start with but I ALSO think that the Enfield could be made very very good !

BTW ZM , please try to learn how to use the quote function .

[Major Softie]

BTW ZM , please try to learn how to use the quote function .

Hey, he has tried. He's even made progress!



Still more work ahead, of course....

[Zombie Master]

BTW ZM , please try to learn how to use the quote function .

Hey, he has tried. He's even made progress!



Still more work ahead, of course....

Always room for improvement.

[Armaguidon13]

What ever you love is going to be the best mistress for a travel around the world !
I've had a 90S a 77RS and a 90 G/S
For me the choice could be the G/S
But the RS is a gret bike also, maybe the best for highway and winter
90S not too bad also

[Duane Ausherman]

A good friend of mine recently rented a Enfield to ride through the Himalaya Mountains. That is only a small part of what might be an around the world trip. She told me that those bikes were breaking down every day and a factory mechanic was very busy trying to keep people on the road.

She even talked to the factory manager and told him what crap they were and that her BMW was the standard to which they should hold. His attitude was that they had no chance and besides, Indian people weren't going to desert the locally made product.

Yes, I am sure that there are better bikes these days than an old BMW, but it is isn't an Enfield, or Vellocette.

[Sibbo]

I strongly suspect that attitude is going to hurt them badly as time goes by although I'd take a Velo in a second.

The standard is Honda. Cheap and good .

Sorry about that .

[Zombie Master]

I strongly suspect that attitude is going to hurt them badly as time goes by although I'd take a Velo in a second.

The standard is Honda. Cheap and good .

Sorry about that .

Personally I don't like Honda engineering. When I was into wrenching, they would change part numbers sometimes bi-yearly. They have made some good bikes, but will cheap out in places you don't see. Yamaha tends to keep many more parts standard, has lower maintenance requirements, and when they want to cheap out, they choose cosmetics over mechanical. I bought an early CB750, it was reliable, but lousy at being a motorcycle. YRMV

[Zombie Master]

I strongly suspect that attitude is going to hurt them badly as time goes by although I'd take a Velo in a second.

The standard is Honda. Cheap and good .

Sorry about that .

Personally I don't like Honda engineering. When I was into wrenching, they would change part numbers sometimes bi-yearly. They have made some good bikes, but will cheap out in places you don't see. Yamaha tends to keep many more parts standard, has lower maintenance requirements, and when they want to cheap out, they choose cosmetics over mechanical. I bought an early CB750, it was reliable, but lousy at being a motorcycle. YRMV

[Sibbo]

I strongly suspect that attitude is going to hurt them badly as time goes by although I'd take a Velo in a second.

The standard is Honda. Cheap and good .

Sorry about that .

Personally I don't like Honda engineering. When I was into wrenching, they would change part numbers sometimes bi-yearly. They have made some good bikes, but will cheap out in places you don't see. Yamaha tends to keep many more parts standard, has lower maintenance requirements, and when they want to cheap out, they choose cosmetics over mechanical. I bought an early CB750, it was reliable, but lousy at being a motorcycle. YRMV

Yeah, I'll pay that. My best Japanese machinery was Suzuki followed by Yamaha then Honda. The Honda never ever broke down though.