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For occasional trips on countryside roads, taking your time to chat with local people, pick flowers for an herbarium, this bike is perfect. It’ a remedy against stress, with rare ability to turn you into a poet.
With a comfortable riding position (far away from Kamasutra edicted by sporting motorbikes), its engine smooth like a nan, the delicate sound of its exhaust pipe, long like a day without a tchaï, the
Royal Enfield is a great aesthetic and cerebral pleasure, intended for India nostalgic tourists as much as vintage mechanic lovers. It’s also the kind of curios you would like to put in a countryhouse with straw around, waiting for time to go by.
Maximoto February 2004
With a Royal Enfield 500 Bullet, if you know when you leave but can never say when you’ll return, it is not because you’ve been stuck somewhere but because of time going by without even noticing.
Moto Légende 2002
Royal Enfield is to bikes what Volkswagen beetle is to cars.
Moto Légende 2003
A machine that can tell beautiful stories while bringing back from the past mechanic emotions that we had almost forgotten.
Motomag essais 2004
Indians have been manufacturing Bullets for 50 years, and we’re not done with hearing about it, each time for the better.
La Vie de la Moto 2005
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