Its finally here, what I hear that RE dealers have started accepting booking for the much awaited Royal Enfield AVL 500, re-badged in India as the Machismo 500! The AVL500 is what RE has been exporting to UK and US as the Electra 500X for some time now! For India, they have given the (sticky but expensive) Avon tires a miss . At 187 kgs, I dont expect any major difference in performance (in absolute terms) from the CI 500. A unit gearbox would have made this Bullet real quick, with less power loss in transmission, but as it seems RE developed cold feet when they could ...oh wait! May be the unit gearbox's first target is their volume bikes(dont laugh) - i.e. the 350s!
Picture Courtesy: Royal Enfield
Saturday, May 19, 2007
Goes Like a Bullet...Really ?
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