{"id":3290,"date":"2019-03-13T11:07:25","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T18:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=3290"},"modified":"2022-09-09T12:06:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T19:06:36","slug":"18-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/03\/13\/18-again\/","title":{"rendered":"18 again!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gresh left New Mexico headed for Los Angeles early this morning. What’s that white stuff?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Imagine you’re an old fart like Gresh and suddenly you could be again 18 years old again.\u00a0 That’s kind of what happened to me just a short while ago.\u00a0 Now, old Joe Gresh, he’s inbound from the Sacramento Mountains (don’t let the name fool you) in New Mexico, the Tinfiny Ranch, headed here. \u00a0 The guy wanted to make the drive in one day in order to be staged for our run into Baja tomorrow.\u00a0 Hey, that’s okay.\u00a0 It’s going to be warmer where we’re going.<\/p>\n

Anyway, back to that 18-years-old-thing again. \u00a0 That’s what I want to be.\u00a0 18 years old.\u00a0 And while I’m dreaming, throw in a new 1966 650cc, made-in-England, Triumph Bonneville, but let’s add electric start, six speeds, disc brakes, and a flawless finish.\u00a0 That’s my dream.<\/p>\n

Only it’s not a dream. That’s where I am right now.<\/p>\n

The bike is a new Royal Enfield Interceptor.\u00a0 It’s a 650.\u00a0 The styling is perfect, right down to the big tach and speedo that almost say “Smiths” (if I have to explain that, you wouldn’t understand).\u00a0 It’s made in India instead of England (hey, the current Triumph Bonnevilles are made in Thailand). \u00a0 My take?\u00a0 This new motorcycle has out-Triumphed Triumph in being more faithful to the original layout, displacement, and feel of the ’66 Bonneville I’ve lusted after for years. \u00a0 But with lots more refinement.<\/p>\n

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A brand new Royal Enfield 650 Interceptor in my driveway. It’s my ride for the next 10 days or so.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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For my good buddy Orlando: See, it’s orange…the fastest color!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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You can almost see where it says Smiths.\u00a0 This, folks, is what motorcycle instruments should look like!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Want to read another strong statement?\u00a0 On my 25-mile ride home from So Cal Moto in Brea, where I picked up the Royal Enfield, I decided I’m going to buy one. \u00a0 Oh, I’ll find some nits to pick over the next 2000 BajaBound<\/a> miles and I’ll share them with you here, but this bike answers the mail. \u00a0 And the price?\u00a0 Well, a new Triumph Bonneville cost $1320 in 1966.\u00a0 I know, because my Dad bought one.\u00a0 A new Royal Enfield is $5799, I think.\u00a0 If you take that 1966 $1320 figure and adjust it for inflation to 2019, it comes out to $10,298. \u00a0 Buy a new Enfield 650 and you’ve already saved $4500.\u00a0 That’s the argument I’m going to use with She Who Must Be Obeyed.\u00a0 I think it will work, too.<\/p>\n

I’m going to break our rule and post more than one blog today.\u00a0 We are living in exciting times, my friends, and I can’t wait to share the excitement with you. \u00a0 The 500cc Bullet is about 45 minutes out (it’s being delivered from the RE dealer in Glendale) and I’ll post an update about that later today, too!<\/p>\n

I can’t wait to get on the road tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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Imagine you’re an old fart like Gresh and suddenly you could be again 18 years old again.\u00a0 That’s kind of what happened to me just a short while ago.\u00a0 Now, old Joe Gresh, he’s inbound from the Sacramento Mountains (don’t let the name fool you) in New Mexico, the Tinfiny Ranch, headed here. \u00a0 The … Continue reading “18 again!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[235,392,63,232,66,610],"tags":[613,612],"class_list":["post-3290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-back-in-the-day","category-baja","category-dream-bike","category-joe-gresh","category-royal-enfield","tag-royal-enfield-650","tag-royal-enfield-interceptor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3290"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3300,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290\/revisions\/3300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}