Hello,

Looks like this place need some more life, hopefully soon we will have members sharing their bikes and cars pictures. For time being , I am sharing picture bike of Mr. Rajesh Chauhan, I have taken his consent, he is an Royal Enfield die-hard fan. Currently he own two bikes, one is machismo 500 and other he owns RE lightening. Hopefully he will himself share pictures and details about his lightening . Currently I am uploading one picture of his bike. I have more pictures but they didn't look good when uploaded to PC, I will ask him again to give me some good snaps.


So, you can see his bike, he has done chrome job on fuel tank, actually fuel tank is lot wider, it doesn't wider look in this picture. Also, you can see he has this wider and taller handlebar. Also, he has done some  job on seats to make them more comfy, you can see new classic's tail lamp, actually bike looks far more clean and impressive in real life than picture.

Believe it or not, I have driven it, its a real head turner with its all free flow pipe. I see heads turning when I ride my TB but when I rode this one, I felt that even more people are noticing you. Also its seating position is very good for long riding, felt like I am sitting on my couch.

Ya, that is something unique about RE , they have good CC to mileage ration
But they have bad size to power ratio .. 350cc gives 19.6 Bhp.. while new Yamaha R15 gives 17.5 bhp for 150cc..

And yes, the bike of Sajjad which is R15V2 gives milage of only 26-28 onroad in city ride.

I have already taken leap and ordered wider handlebar , but I dint get the wider I wanted, the one I received is 10 cm shorter, he promised to get me wider one, I will talk to him today..

Below I am attaching image I just clicked for you, handling is now superb, it really gives you feeling of better control over bike. Just to tell, its Yamaha RD350 handlebar in thunderbird.

I think you should not worry about this, I know this is very simple issue and I think it is coming from the chain, you need to replace chain interlock. But before that just have a close look and let us know if it is really your chain .

Here is another one I am sharing, this is actually I saw on some website where the owner wanted to sell it, this bik is again clean and nice work.

Its an  1999 Machismo with all those custom work.

You mean that cast-iron engine was being used from 1950s till year 2000 ?

Actually I have been that page already and have done lots of research before making this request.  You see I am looking for touring part only and now days I am also considering pair of saddlebag but really those side box comes really handy.

He has done it already , check out here :
Sajjad's Yamaha R15 v2