Showing posts with label Royal Enfield dragster. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Royal Enfield dragster. Show all posts

Thursday, January 1, 2009

Royal Enfield dragster goes for a run

Christmas Day was the perfect time for a test run of his Royal Enfield drag bike, Kunal Bhaskaran decided. The Pune, India motorcycle shop owner has pictures and a report of the break-in ride on his Monster Dog blog.

One of the photos shows his stretched drag bike next to a stock 500. It looks like an exciting ride.

Saturday, December 13, 2008

Blogger details Royal Enfield drag bike


Blogger Kunal Bhaskaran is describing his ground-up remaking of his Royal Enfield drag bike in his Monster Bike blog. Bhaskaran runs a motorcycle shop in Pune, India. He says he rides a 535 Enfield Bullet in preference to all other transport.

He has raced his drag bike for three seasons but, after the 2008 races, took it completely apart with plans to extend the frame six inches (for greater stability) and switch from four-speed to the new five-speed transmission.

In the process, Bhaskaran has changed the five-speed transmission to shift on the right, which he considers the proper side! He is obviously a determined and talented bike builder. So far, he says, there has been no "visit" from the dreaded "Mr. Murphy."
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