unlike my other enfield's which have come and gone since registering this c5 3 months or so ago not much has happened. I did an 80 km or 50 mile trip on the very first day and after that it sat for 3 months.
earlier on this week I thought I might kick it in the guts - so to speak and start running it in. as of today it has about 210 miles or 350 km and is running pretty good.
this one appears to have a pretty good motor or strong motor and I can feel it a better one than my previous bike. saying that though it doesn't ride the bumps as good as my 2014 model. more like jolts over them.
another thing which is different. by now I have usually butchered the bikes by either pulling them apart or adding accessories but this is the first sitting so far as stock standard.
I even think it runs pretty well with the standard factory exhaust so that's saying something. I have my old hitchcocks efi muffler still in the spare room but id and when it goes on -maybe at the 3,000kl
mark.
I did oil/filter change at 200km or 120 miles and everything was totally clean with no metal in the oil drop and no rubbish in the mesh filter.
I wouldn't say I have treated it like a baby but I have not been hard on it either. at the 60 mile or 100kl odometer reading I sat in on 100kl or 60 mph just to see how it handled it....it was more hit the 60 mph and then drop back to 50mph or 80kph.
I can never be bothered riding these around town so they usually hit the back roads of aust within days.
so far these runs have averaged around 30 to 50 miles non stop and when I arrive home turn off and park it I let it totally cool down till the next day.
temp wise its about 50 F or lower daily so its pretty cool out on the road. because of black ice and such I have not bothered riding it till 1pm or better to avoid any incidents.
my reserve petrol light flashed today for the first time and then glowed on the way home. once home I poked a cotton candy stich in there to measure the gas and I still have a bit so on the run-in I have managed 356klm on whatever petrol the dealer put in the bike on pick-up.
as it was so clean in the prior service I plan to run it now to 600klm or 350 miles and drop the oil and filter again. after that I will be getting close to my departure for my road trip and I don't expect to ride it much more till when I return in august and that's a very cold month so maybe September.
more importantly I think I can say it's pretty safe here at the moment or I would have cashed it by now....lol I still like these bikes regardless of what other bike riders think about them.
they have great character and if you can't get on one of these and go for a run at least feel good - your probably never going to be pleased.
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