{"id":7712,"date":"2020-03-07T06:19:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T14:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=7712"},"modified":"2020-03-07T11:19:27","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T19:19:27","slug":"the-royal-enfield-on-glendora-ridge-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/03\/07\/the-royal-enfield-on-glendora-ridge-road\/","title":{"rendered":"The Royal Enfield on Glendora Ridge Road"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I had the new Enfield 650 up on Glendora Ridge Road this week and I thought I’d share a few photos with you. \u00a0 Not a lot of words this time, folks, other than to say I’m still breaking in the bike and I’m taking it easy. And the bike is pretty enough that it doesn’t need a lot of explanation.\u00a0 I’ll offer a little, though, and with that in mind, here we go.<\/p>\n

To me, the Enfield is the closest thing ever to the original Triumph Bonneville, more so even than the modern Triumph Bonneville (in my story on the Royal Enfield in Motorcycle Classics<\/em> magazine<\/a>, I said that Enfield out-Triumphed Triumph).\u00a0 And that’s a good thing, because to me a ’60s Triumph Bonneville is the yardstick by which I measure all motorcycles.\u00a0 Edward Turner and the folks in Coventry got it right, and late ’60s Triumphs were the ultimate in style, performance, and cool.\u00a0 I spent major portions of my youth dreaming about Triumph Bonnevilles (and maybe a little bit about Raquel Welch).\u00a0 The 650 Enfield has that old Triumph Bonneville look and feel, and that’s the highest compliment I can give a motorcycle. But’s it not old Triumph quirky.\u00a0 Think original Triumph mystique, but with Honda fit and finish, and you’ll pretty much have an idea of what this motorcycle is like.<\/p>\n

That’s enough wordsmithing for now.<\/p>\n

More photos, you say?\u00a0 Coming right up!<\/p>\n

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It was a glorious day up in the San Gabriels.\u00a0 Glendora Ridge Road is always a great ride.<\/p>\n

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The new Enfield photographs well, I think.\u00a0 There are several colors available in this new model. I like the metalflake gold.\u00a0 It’s the same color as the test bike I rode in Baja<\/a> and it makes for great photography.<\/p>\n

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This next photo could be a magazine cover.\u00a0 There aren’t too many magazines out there any more.\u00a0 It’s nearly all online now, as Gresh and I know all too well.\u00a0 That’s a topic for another time.\u00a0 Back to my point:\u00a0 This next shot would make a hell of a magazine cover.<\/p>\n

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And finally, one more photo…my signature selfie.\u00a0 This one is yours truly in the Enfield’s starboard muffler.<\/p>\n

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Glendora Ridge Road<\/a> is a great road and a great place for breaking in a new motorcycle. \u00a0 A road with 234 curves in 12 miles…just what the doctor ordered for keeping the revs down and the shifts up.\u00a0 Click on that link above and you’ll learn more about GRR, and please do follow the ExNotes blog to learn more about the Enfield.\u00a0 I’ll be posting a lot on this bike.\u00a0 And I’ll still be posting stories about my CSC TT 250 and RX3, too. \u00a0 The right tool for the right job.\u00a0 They’re all great machines.<\/p>\n

I may head over to Douglas Motorcycles<\/a> later today; they’re having an Enfield open house and if I go I’ll grab a few more photos to share with you. There are other Enfield colors (they’re all beautiful), and they need me and my Nikon.\u00a0 The 24-120 lens and I hear them calling.<\/p>\n

Hey, there are other Enfield owners out there.\u00a0 Let’s hear from you!\u00a0 Please add your comments to the blog. Folks want to hear what you have to say!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had the new Enfield 650 up on Glendora Ridge Road this week and I thought I’d share a few photos with you. \u00a0 Not a lot of words this time, folks, other than to say I’m still breaking in the bike and I’m taking it easy. And the bike is pretty enough that it … Continue reading “The Royal Enfield on Glendora Ridge Road”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[610],"tags":[613],"class_list":["post-7712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-royal-enfield","tag-royal-enfield-650"],"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\/7712","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=7712"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7728,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7712\/revisions\/7728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}