Oh! it vibrates worse than any bike I've ridden in the last sixty years. My Guzzi V7s were dreadful when new but as the mileage increases they do get smoother. They say 10k is needed to bed them in.
The Enfield has just over 2k miles on the clock so I am hoping it needs an extended running in period. What do you think?
My (then) new 2020 Trials was noticeably smoother after 2K, but it didn't vibrate much even when brand new. These motors vary
enormously - some are dogs and some are
far smoother. Apparently it's to do with how well (or not) the individual crankshafts are hand assembled & balanced at the factory. Mine was hitting the rev limiter at 75 (indicated) MPH as the Trials is lower geared due it's supposed 'off road' leanings and at about 70+ MPH
the mirrors would blur and rotate out of adjustment, although the vibration still didn't feel too bad. Now at 8K this doesn't happen, although fitting a new taller readr tyre has helped by raising the gearing adding about 5 MPH to the point at which mirrors
just begin to blur slightly and also top speed as the rev limited now doesn't kick in. I have read many reports of new riders selling UCE 500s at only 500 miles or so because they couldn't hack the vibration - if they had only kept the bike another 500-1000 miles until they were fully run-in they would probably have noticed a big reduction in vibration.
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