[rdubbleu]

G2/24740

[ace.cafe]

Pretty sure that the G2 series are all 350cc model Bullets. I believe the 500 models were designated JS.
It's a pre 1954 model, because the late 1954 models had a frame change, beginning with frame number G2/32351.
This should have the "loop frame" type of appearance for th rear shock mount area, like the modern India Bullets have, and not looking like the Interceptor frames. The Interceptor type frames weren't introduced until after late-1954.

From the description, it seems like the numbers match, so that's probably good.
But, there are some fakes running around.
If it was imported here recently from India, the odds of it being some kind of fake are much higher.

Show us a close up picture.
We can tell more by looking at it.

[southharbour enfield]

I have a homemarket enfield, it was a privat import from India in 1999.
serial no G2 61848, same frame no.  it is a 500cc. (now a 535cc)
the guy who importet it was told it was from 1997?. (for import-tax resons the Indian papers say 1965, very low import-tax on bikes/cars older than 35 years in Denmark)
it could be from another year 1988-1997?

Erik

[ace.cafe]

I have a homemarket enfield, it was a privat import from India in 1999.
serial no G2 61848, same frame no.  it is a 500cc. (now a 535cc)
the guy who importet it was told it was from 1997?. (for import-tax resons the Indian papers say 1965, very low import-tax on bikes/cars older than 35 years in Denmark)
it could be from another year 1988-1997?

Erik

Yes Erik,
That's a later model India-made Bullet 500.
There were no "1965" 500 Bullets.
I'd say that it is likely to be a 1990s vintage.
It is very common practice to use an old serial number to get paperwork that will allow these newer bikes to be imported as antiques.
it happens in the US quite frequently too.

Not that there is necessarily anything wrong with the bikes. It's just that they are not the old bikes that people sometimes think they are, or that the paperwork says.

But sometimes they are actually antiques, so they have to be looked at to see if they have the characteristics that the old bikes had, and are not just re-papered newer bikes.