Good luck with your T bird, will this be your first RE?? Why did you prefer to buy a used one? The machismo is the same bike that was available only outside India, as the Electra X, the one with the 500 AVL engine. RE has made that model available to us only since mid 2007. It has a chromed front fender, and chrome on the tank, the battery box, and the chain cover, that is the only difference. Perhaps RE thinks that in India the bright shiny look is more in demand than an understated one? Anyone who has visited the country knows how colorfully even trucks are painted up here, for instance!
I left Goa 25 years ago, in pursuit of a career in the corporate world in India, it was a very laid back place then. Great to tool around on a bike, but was not the place for me at that age. Now that I would love to go back there, it is largely ruined because it has been " discovered" !