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Royal Enfield Motorcycles => Bullet with the UCE engine => Topic started by: Drifter on July 06, 2010, 10:29:11 pm

Title: BSA style cases on C5.
Post by: Drifter on July 06, 2010, 10:29:11 pm
Any one else notice the egg shape cases on the C5, they look alot like the unit 650 BSA of years gone by. My first streetbike was a 71 lightning 650 after a beer or 3 the bottom end of the C5 looks alot like it!  At least the BSA had a kicker and room for gearing changes...worst vibrating bike i ever owned, but it sounded great with those shorty mufflers... :)
Title: Re: BSA style cases on C5.
Post by: ace.cafe on July 06, 2010, 10:47:08 pm
There is a similarity to the BSA unit engines.


Alot of the styling cues for the C5 came from the 1956 Royal Enfield Clipper 250.
(http://www.royal-enfield.net/old_bullets/1940-1959/1956_250_Clipper.jpg)


And some of the styling cues for the engine cases came off the later Royal Enfield Continental or Crusader or Clipper 250cc unit-engined machines.
(http://classic-motorbikes.net/images/gallery/1960-royal-enfield-clipper.jpg)
Title: Re: BSA style cases on C5.
Post by: r80rt on July 06, 2010, 11:37:37 pm
That's because BSA Copied Royal Enfield! I still miss my '69 Thunderbolt, they did sound sweet.