[carlo]

Finally got all the parts ready, and it's beginning to shape up.
Still need to clean up and reassemble the engine, but that should be done this weekend, and I'll get it hung in the frame, and hopefully, ready to fire up by midweek.
The big show is next Sunday.
Oregon Vintage Motorcyclists

[Arizoni]

By golly!  It's coming right along.

[RGT]

are the dual brakes stock?

[bullethead63]

Looks great! I love the color scheme...

[carlo]

are the dual brakes stock?

Not hardly. That's a Suzuki GT750 front end on there.   (except for the "casquette")

But I did add a personal touch to confuse people.

Suzuki/Honda/Yamaha use bits of aluminum tape with the appropriate name stamped in for this purpose. I made these out of enameled copper.

[carlo]

A bit of explanation regarding the front end is due.

Why a Suzuki GT750 front end?

An article in the REOC/USA newsletter some 25 years ago that someone wrote claiming a Suzuki GT750 front fork would fit perfectly onto a Royal Enfield frame got me excited about the possibility of relatively modern suspension and good brakes, so I went to the local "breakers" and bought one.
Sadly, I was unaware at the time that they originally used a really excellent four-leading-shoe drum brake on the early models. This one had the twin disks. I wish I'd known enough to make sure I got the drum brake model front end.

I don't know what the guy was smoking when he "fitted" that fork to his Enfield, but they're not a "drop-in" replacement. The bearing races aren't interchangable between the frames, and the diameters of the races are different, so you can't just use the Enfield inner races with the Suzuki outer races.
I just stashed the forks away.

So, I figured out how to do it, and still have the famous Enfield "casquette".
Cut a thread into the Suzuki stanchion tubes, and just replace the legs, but keep the Enfield triple clamp. That's a pretty simplistic description of how it was done. For more detail visit my blog post.