Talk:Royal Enfield (England)

message: Where does the Queen keep her chickens?<BR>
In the Royal Enfield!<BR>
* This one was especially bad, I did not understand it :-) Manik Raina 14:59, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Bad Joke

message: No reference are provided for this in the article. Neither is there any mention of it in the early part of the article in say the Origins of the company.
--User:Unitedroad
:Royal Enfield was founded in 1898, ie, the 19th century.  It's now the 21st century so Royal Enfield production has spanned three centuries. Conch Shell 10:54, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: "Enfield spanning three centuries"

message: Having read through the article, the following looks like an advert in encyclopedic form - have removed to here rather than just dumping as the person who added much to the article also wrote this stuff - the bottom two pieces are just adverts, added by 71.215.167.227 on 31 August. There is something there, but not this much POV/hype -Trident13 09:23, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Egli is notable in motorcycling terms. I did not write the original above, but think Egli rates a mention. How about;
Egli and Enfield
Fritz Egli, famous for designing frames and building motorcycles using existing engines, has the Enfield of India distributorship for Switzerland and Austria. While he has not designed a new frame for the Bullet, he produces performance parts for them. This lead to Egli working as a consultant to the Madras factory, and Royal Enfield incorporating some of his engine improvements into production models.  InsideBikes Egli Bullet Clubman 535 (Retrieved 6 November 2006)
Sources
Is that acceptable?Seasalt 12:53, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: POV Advert

message: :Egli is notable in motorcycling terms. I did not write the original above, but think Egli rates a mention. How about;
Egli and Enfield
Fritz Egli, famous for designing frames and building motorcycles using existing engines, has the Enfield of India distributorship for Switzerland and Austria. While he has not designed a new frame for the Bullet, he produces performance parts for them. This lead to Egli working as a consultant to the Madras factory, and Royal Enfield incorporating some of his engine improvements into production models.  InsideBikes Egli Bullet Clubman 535 (Retrieved 6 November 2006)
Sources
Is that acceptable?Seasalt 12:53, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggestion

message: Very little mention is made of the 500cc Electra X and its significance to Royal Enfield in Europe.  The classic version can no longer be imported as it doe not meet EU emissions regs so the Electra X with its 'lean burn' engine was the answer to this problem.  I was one of the first in the country to have one and it was met with derision by the 'purists' who did not consider it to be a true Royal Enfield.  In truth it was a wonderful handling machine which pulled back 80 - 90 mpg and would cruise all day at between 70 - 80 mph (indicated).  Now a couple of years down the line what do people think now? Mspice2215  82.34.55.108 (talk) 19:57, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Electra X 

message: According to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_motorcycle
"Royal Enfield in India was the only manufacturer that has built a diesel motorcycle in mass production."
The word "diesel" does not appear on this page or this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Enfield_Motors
There is no mention of what fuel the models of motorcycle listed on this page use.  Do I assume that like nearly all other motorcycles they use gasoline (petrol), or do I assume that all of them are diesel powered?
Kevin Trumbull (talk) 17:16, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Diesel? 

message: Does this section belong in the article at all? Is it even about a Royal Enfield bike? If not, perhaps it should be removed:
EGLI Royal Enfield Super Bullet
Swiss motorcycle tuner Fritz W. Egli, a distributor of Royal Enfield motorcycle, was approached by a customer to create the Egli Super Bullet. The basis for this bike is Egli’s use of a central tube frame constructed from nickel-plated chromium-molybdenum steel. The engine is equipped with an aluminium cylinder, US-sourced piston, larger valves in a redesigned cylinder head, longer stroke crankshaft (105mm), special main bearings, dry clutch, timing belt primary drive and 36mm Keihin flat-slide carburettors. The output is 40PS from a 624cc engine fed via an electric pump from a classic-looking aluminium tank.[12]  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.240.129.53 (talk) 23:51, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Egli super bullet 

message: * Not supported - this is one of the oldest British motorcycle manufacturers we need to improve the article not export it to India Thruxton (talk) 07:59, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Absolutely not. They are two different companies. --Biker Biker (talk) 09:16, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggested merge 

message: I have added some historical details picked up from "Millers's Classic Motorcycles Price Guide 1995 Volume II, p.78. Consultants Judith and Martin Miller, general Editor Valerie Lewis". They disagree slightly with this article on the exact start-point of motorcycle manufacturing (and there is a miniscule grammatical error in there if you can find it!).
 These are their exact words, I've not added everything they say. MalcolmMcDonald (talk) 15:17, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Millers Classic M/cycles

message: WP:ELOFFICIAL is pretty clear. Links to more than one of the subject's web sites are to be avoided. And en.wikipedia.org is not USA.wikipedia.org; there is no reason to give special attention to the US website of an international company. As far as using the USA site as a source, that's highly questionable. If you are using it for the article, cite it inline. But then again, it's not an independent source, so how much good is it?
The other link, www.royalenfieldmotorcycles.blogspot.com, clearly violates WP:ELNO. --Dbratland (talk) 15:47, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Multiple external links to offical site 

message: I don't know where they got their information, but the record for the longest production run of any motorcycle is actually the Russian IMZ-Ural m72, which came from the 1938 BMW R71. This predates the bullet by some 16 years (Enfield of India's 1956 vs Ural's 1940). ▫Bad▫harlick♠ 12:28, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not the longest production run... 

message: This article describes Royal Enfield as defunct but I read a newspaper article recently that they are opening a new shop in London. VenomousConcept (talk) 17:09, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: This particular Royal Enfield article refers to the business up to 1971, as stated in the intro and infobox. The later business is stated (in the hatnote before the lede section) as Royal Enfield (India) or Royal Enfield Motors which produces motorcycles currently (also included in the lead section).--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 21:00, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Royal Enfield back in London 

message: The article claims that the logo refers to a legacy of weapons manufacture, but there is no mention of that in the history section. I rather suspect that the logo was piggybacking on RSAF Enfield, who created some of the most famous small arms in British history, including the Lee–Enfield (standard rifle of British and Commonwealth troops in both World Wars) and the SA80 (current standard rifle of the British Army).-84.170.92.183 (talk) 00:13, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: This dates the name and slogan "Made like a gun" to 1893 and says it was because the motorcycle company also make rifle parts for Royal Small Arms Factory. Same here. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 02:58, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  Great, thanks! Could you please add this bit of information to the history section?-84.170.92.183 (talk) 10:43, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Claim of weapons manufacture legacy 

message: Substituted at 20:13, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

message: Changes by Vintagent introduced errors in March 2016. I found them soon after. Despite being notified together with historic evidence emailed directly, this editor still has not corrected the prose. I have to assume the emailed 1996(?) article was received but purposely unactioned. Worse than that, the errors presently implicate another author's published work which, as I don't have his book, I have to assume is correct.See User talk:Vintagent#Your edits to Royal Enfield dated 21 May 2016.  is not applicable. I've sat on this for a year, and expect I'll have to do the correction; it's largely buried so I've monitored it but allowed it to run.--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 00:24, 8 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disputed section tagging 

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message: The Enfield Indians section is about bikes made in the UK and the US in the 1950s and 60s. It is currently illustrated with a photo captioned 'Royal Enfield Bullet 350 in front with license plate from Delhi, India' showing a modern Enfield manufactured in India, which I am going to remove. Robert P Connolly (talk) 08:59, 18 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Indian' Enfield photo 

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The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 02:21, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 25 March 2024