{"id":7642,"date":"2020-02-25T16:38:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T00:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=7642"},"modified":"2020-02-25T16:41:25","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T00:41:25","slug":"7642","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/02\/25\/7642\/","title":{"rendered":"The Royal Enfield, the RX3, the TT 250, and more…"},"content":{"rendered":"

So you’ve probably noticed I haven’t been riding too much lately. \u00a0 You know how it goes…it gets cold, you have other things going on in your life, you want to send some lead downrange, and on and on it goes.<\/p>\n

I needed to break that pattern, and there’s no better way to do that than to buy a motorcycle. \u00a0 Yeah, I know…I already have two motorcycles (what has to be the world’s most well-traveled RX3, and a pristine, low miles TT 250). I like CSC<\/a> motorcycles.\u00a0 But you may recall that Uncle Joe Gresh and I road tested two Enfields<\/a> last year and I fell in love with the 650 Interceptor.<\/p>\n

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Down Mexico way…dinner at the San Remedio in Guerrero Negro. Life is good, folks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I was primed to buy a Royal Enfield when I returned from Mexico, but the Enfield dealer in Glendale had done a God-awful job prepping the Bullet (I wouldn’t buy squat from those guys now), and the Enfield dealer in Brea was doing the normal bend-you-over-a-barrel, here-comes-the-setup-and-freight-charges routine. \u00a0 Folks, I’ve worked in the industry, and I know what setup and freight costs actually are.\u00a0 Trust me on this…they ain’t $1500.\u00a0 So I didn’t buy an Enfield.<\/p>\n

Then an amazing thing happened.\u00a0 One of the few dealerships I trust picked up the Enfield line last week.\u00a0 It’s Art Guilfoil’s Douglas Motorcycles<\/a> in San Bernardino.\u00a0 I asked Art what he could do for me on a new Enfield, I was shocked at how low the number was (don’t ask, because I won’t tell), and, well…<\/p>\n

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I think this is No. 42 or No. 43 or something. I’ve owned a lot of motorcycles. This is the latest. Sue is cool with it, too!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’m picking up my new 650 Royal Enfield on Thursday, and to say I’m excited would be an understatement of immense proportions.\u00a0 It was a tough call for me between the Enfield and the new CSC RX4, but truth be told, I love my RX3<\/a> and it checks all the boxes for what I want in an adventure touring motorcycle.\u00a0 Arguably, the RX3 is the finest adventure touring motorcycle in the world if you’re going places other than the corner burger joint (for all the reasons I explained in my piece titled Why a 250?<\/em><\/a>).\u00a0 I know.\u00a0 I’ve been to places other than the corner burger joint, and I’ve made most of those trips on an RX3.<\/p>\n