Let's ride! Featuring a 22 tooth front sprocket upgrade as a major upgrade!
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- čas přidán 24. 07. 2024
- #royalenfield #1961royalenfield
This is the most comprehesive evaluation on the 22 tooth upgrade. In my opinion I can not understand why the street racer bullet 350cc never had this configuation as standard. I love this bike now!
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Absolutely incredible mod! I have installed 19 teeth front sprocket on my 1989 bullet 350 and my bike is comfortable on long cruises and returns better milage. In heavy traffic though, while working the clutch, the clutch plates tend to heat up quickly and the primary case heats up like crazy, but I am eager to fit a 22 on my Enfield but sadly, all I could get is a 19teeth here in India.
Hi Vishal that’s strange that the couch case heats up so much. I fitted a 4 plate replacing the 3 plate so it wouldn’t slip. It works perfectly in English traffic. I can only imagine the amount of clutch work you are doing in Indian traffic! 👍
i love that sound its so good!
Thank u for showing Uk roads on Royal Enfield
Two things, first you can change the sprocket in the primary case for smaller/larger to save removing the entire primary and second fit the "Samrat lightweight rockers" it transforms the bike.
You've got that 350 really moving with a bit of purpose with that 22 toother. I did the same with an old '67 Norton N15CS "Desert Sled" factory hybrid (basically a Norton Atlas 750 twin and lengthened Roadholder forks in a Matchless frame), which I believe had a 19 on it for better off-road tractability. A 22 made her FAR happier and more relaxed on the roads. Well done!
I can’t understand why they used any smaller in the first place!
@@MyRestoration1 For mixed-surfaces riding. Being the first production bikes with a proper swingarm and shocks in that now familiar array, the Bullets first made a name for themselves in those International Six Day Trials (ISDT) enduro-style events through the late '40s and early '50s, where they were held in pretty much the same all-conquering "unapproachable" regard as Nortons in the TTs for several decades. It was a "horses for courses" thing. If you just wanted road speed you'd get a twin like their Constellation or Interceptor. The lowish gearing and hence tractability off-road likely explains why the Indian government wanted them for their troops patrolling borders with only notional "roads" to speak of. The Indians went "all in" with the Bullet model, ordering so many that they set up a little assembly factory there in (then) Madras to service the orders, initially just cobbling together parts sent from England. The Bullet soon caught on big with their public too, so when Enfield was shuttering its Bullet production, the Indians snagged all the tooling, which explains why I have a 2005 Bullet that's not significantly different than that elderly one you resurrected so masterfully, apart from a 5-speed gearbox, turn signals, and some Metric instead of Whitworth threads. They just forgot to stop making your Grandaddy's bike yonder until stricter emissions standards forced their hand beginning about 2008, with that model having been in continuous production, with only minor modifications, for about 70 years. So what your man has there now with that 22-tooth sprocket is a former "green laner" with better road manners.
Top job, mate. Couldn't you just have added a link to your existing chain?
I would love to but it’s not just one link unfortunately. I just sent the old one back anyway. Thanks for your comment 🙏
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