Nice article on your site.
I thought about going to India too. I may be going there next year. My wife wanted me to wait on the bike and get it in india. To see my bike roll off the assembly line would have been cool but, I'm glad I bought it. I have no remorse either.
My last bike was a 1988 Honda NT650 Hawk. Not a Night Hawk, it had the frame of the VFR, a V-Twin, but no fairings. it was styled after the Ducati Monsters. Before that I had a 1978 Suzuki GS1100 (got it cheap, a big piece of garbage), and prior to that my first bike was a 1980 Yamaha 250 Exciter. Of my 3 previous bikes, my favorite is somewhere between the Yamaha & the Hawk. The enfield seems to bridge that gap perfectly.
the Hawk was stolen about 10 years ago. After that, my wife has said no bikes. Recently she's come to the realization that we're all going to die sometime. After booking herself for a variety of "once in a lifetime experiences" (that include skydiving in the Navada Desert & bungee jumping from Victoria Falls) she really couldn't say no any longer. We too fell in love with the Enfields and their story. I was debating between the G5 & the C5. I originally fell in love with the British racing green G5 but, the C5 was looking really neat too. after doing all of my research, I found that the G5 was more versitile and really the bike for me. And as luck would have it, Carl had a green G5.