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22 years with my RE Electra; Close to crossing 1.3L km on odo!

7th October 2024, 18:02 by Rahul Nagaraj

As always, the cast iron engine performs the best in cool weather and the bike felt perfect and was doing 70 km/h.

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It has been almost 6 months since I updated this thread. The evergreen Enfield keeps chugging along and turns 22 years today! Co-incidentally it was a Friday the 13th that I bought the bike home and today is a Friday too.
I must have mentioned it earlier as well on this thread on how I waited patiently a whole day at the showroom and finally got the bike in the evening. It was my first motorcycle and the excitement of it being a Bullet was equivilant to the first time I got a bicycle when I was a kid.
The bike had been with me ever since and used all the time. I have never given it a break and that may be a reason why it runs well even now with no engine work. I get a consistent 25 kmpl in the city which goes up by 2-3 kmpl on a highway ride and this has been the consistent figure over the years which talks a lot about the health of the engine.
In the last few weeks, ever since I replaced the clutch cable, the clutch lever and shifts had gotten hard. Although the clutch plates were replaced less than 20k kms back, it feels like it is the culprit. For now, I have got a good adjustment set on the cable as well as the inside the gearbox casing which seems to have fixed the hard shifts.

I managed to sneak in an early morning ride today to Makali which is around 60 kms away. As always, the cast iron engine perform the best in cool weather and the bike felt perfect and was doing 70 kmph happily without skipping a beat. The usual head gasket leak was there which happens after all rides, but the leak is not much yet although this is a feature since many years.

The bike has run 1,29,950 kms. I was hoping I could hit the 1.30 mark on the ride. Next service is not until next year since the bike has done just 2300 kms since the last one.