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£800?! What a bargain!
I think you'll be forever searching for little vibrations and rattles. I have a new one on mine lately that I think may be from around the headlight but I kind of can't be bothered to look.
It's such a great bike for exploring all the tiny little lanes and places you wouldn't normally go down and really is nice to ride off road as long as you remember what it is.
I keep finding myself trying to manual it through troughs, forgetting I'm not on a MTB 🙂
Looks great without the racks on there.
It's worth changing the silencer if you can. The original weighs an unbelievable amount compared to the Lextek I've fitted now. Sounds lovely too.
It had been up for sale on the Enfield forums for quite a while but being near Penrith probably put people off. It's s got corrosion to the engine cases and fork lowers and every single nut and bolt will need wd40 if they ever need undoing.
I'm determined for this not to turn into a money pit with me upgrading it, it's done 25k miles of Cumbrian winters already so it's had a hard life and I'm not sure a few kg off the bike would make much difference when I'm carrying at least a dozen too many myself. Tyres will be first then it will be replacing things as they break I think.
Perfect for exploring Cotswolds tracks
Quite a deep ford this at Kineton. Difficult exit step about two bricks high too, unseen underwater. Nearly got me 🙂
So I ended up having to replace the whole exhaust as the original one fell to bits at the join between header and silencer.
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It's needed a few other things as well, clutch cable, front tyre and chain and sprocket kit amongst them
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and a few nice to have's have gone on
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mainly cheap bits from china.
It's mainly done commuting duties this autumn with a couple of days mucking about on small lanes, looking forward to warmer, longer days and trying it out off road. I'm only 30 mins from Salter Fell so that has to be a goal next summer.
Fantastic day on the TET today while staying up North for Christmas. Buxton to Hathersage. Some truly epic cloud inversion scenes and lots of technical and enjoyable riding. Only dropped the bike once, only nearly got stuck once, and only snapped one gear shifter so a great result.
great photos
Oops. Should polish out
Got it's first taste of green lane action under my control (or lack of) yesterday. Managed a steepish descent and a water crossing before getting cross-rutted and having to walk it up a steep grassy climb
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Struggled with upward gearchanges with mx boots on
Nice 👍 🙂
Where were you riding?
Gets a bit heavy when you have to manhandle it up through ruts huh?
I got hold of a lengthened gear change lever for mine which is much better for mx boots.
There's a guy on the owners Facebook group who does them with a folding tip and all painted etc.
A short BOAT near Cowling in East Lancs. From both ends it looked like a gravel track and no indication of the big valley in the middle else I would have tried something easier to try as a first timer (and on my own 😯 )
I think the gearchange issue is the boot in the position I have it in isn't allowing the lever to return after shifting up so I'll have a go at raising it up a bit first but if not a longer lever sounds worth a go.
If I could work out how to post pics I'd post some of my Morocco trip a couple of weeks ago on a yam xt250....you can here Enfields too!!
Let's try.
If I could work out how to post pics I'd post some of my Morocco trip a couple of weeks ago on a yam xt250....you can here Enfields too!!
Let's try.
AA looks good sun and dry 🙂 any more pics? Thanks C
Had a little demo on a 450 Saturday at Midwest Moto near Bewdley. Absolutely lovely roads and countryside around there.
I got on with the bike much more than I did the first time I had a ride of it.
Got used to it a bit better.
The acceleration in 2nd and 3rd is kind of addictive after riding the mellow 411 for so long.
Feels like I could almost attempt some wheelies and gravel burnouts in corners if I had one myself. 😊🤘
Definitely doesn't have the character of my 411 but it's a really fun bike.
Very good, 20HP and knobbly tyres, single engine OK or were the roads/tracks the main issue? Looks great with blue skies.
Did you go place to place and stay in BnBs etc, any info appreciated. Cheers C
Bikes were good, plenty of power for Moroccan roads, you don't need to go fast!!
Belw copied and pasted from elsewhere, it really was an awesome trip. Bike hire was about £350 for 6 days, all the rest was cheap, really easy to find accomodation.
Arrived Marrakech mid dayish, picked up bikes got a Moroccan SIM for our phones and headed out of town (madness on those city roads) took RN7 south to Ijoukak, road dug up for a good 10km before Ijoukak stayed night in a Gite type place, quite cold. Ice on bike in am.
Next day took J3 in Morocco Overland book lovely route, had a very brief ride through some snow. and ended up in Taliouine. Stayed in a big old grand hotel out of town with only us in it. Owner wanted to clean us off in his sauna (sweaty pain cave) we politely declined.
Next day followed main road a bit then took A7 route over Issil pass through Amatzguime, had food in Tasnacht then stayed night in Anzal up the rn10. Freezing bloody cold that night. Then took A8 to Ouzazette stayed in posh hotel. Crashed once on dried river bed extra deep gravel. Then next day went via Talouet to Tizzi n Ticha then stayed about 40km outside Marrakech before crazy ride in the next day to drop bikes with Marrakech Roues. Almost 900km all up.
Himalayan Group ride in Warwickshire on Saturday. Great day out with perfect weather.
Had a few issues with bikes mind... 
Out with the Grim lot again?
Can't believe my luck, all this weather and not able to ride far because of dodgy hips. 🙄 It's been nice commuting the last 2 weeks though.
Since I've done the air injection delete it's getting up to 70 a lot easier but it's very buzzy through the seat there. Is this normal?
Clearances are next in my list of to dos but thinking about a 16t front sprocket to drop revs but worried it will compromise off road.
This thread inspired me to get back into biking after 15 years without a bike.
Saw a 3 month old Himalayan with 250 miles on the clock on a FB group. Managed to get it for £2800 including hand guards and collected it last weekend. Have added a few more accessories this week ready for some adventures!
Sweet!
That's a great bargain. 😊
Managed to get it for £2800
Wow that's cheap!
Yeah, I think with the 450 out, the 411 has dropped in price for both new and used. I've seen some dealers have them new for £3600 now.
Brilliant weekend out at the 3rd Grim's Himalayan Rally in Shropshire.
Lots of stuff going on but the main event on Saturday was the rally rides.
The organiser had gone all over Shropshire, down little lanes, byways, places of interest and either come up with questions to answer about that specific spot, or zip tied an a4 placard to a fence or tree with a number on it.
The idea was that each place had a number of points associated with it. You were given all of the map pins in a gpx file before the rally and you had to plot a route out that would take you to as many of these map pins as possible. Obviously you could tend to favour the ones with more points.
Some of the places were questions rather than just numbers so you might have to look around a bit to answer the question right. (One was a pub in Tenbury Wells and you had to answer what famous band was associated with it. Turns out it was the Beatles.)
There were quite a lot of byways/green lanes to tick off if you wanted to and on the description they were graded so you at least had a vague idea of what they might be like before you chose to ride them which was good what with me riding alone.
Another option you could have done is to follow a rally roadbook which is instead of using os maps or similar, you are given pictorial instructions on where to turn at certain distances. It's not something I've done yet and so I decided to plot my own route using OS maps.
Anyway, the route I put together worked out very well. It took me 213 miles all over the shop and I managed to hit 30 pins which with the points totted up, meant I was the highest scorer! 😊
Schweet. There wasn't owt to win(it wasn't a competition) but I was pretty happy with that and the mighty Himalayan 411 was mint on this sort of challenge.
We had talks too which was interesting. Some blokes who worked for Royal Enfield had ridden bikes to the South Pole.
Then Saturday we had one of the lead designers who worked on the new 450 give a talk with photos about the development of that project. Really cool. Made me like it a bit more even though I still think the tank is gopping.
Took the scenic route home from Manchester.
Looking forward to seeing that 👆🏻 at Weston. Horrible tank though. Can't understand, given the faff, why they didn't run the original. Nice looking tank.