Royal Enfield Bullet

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With the new Royal Enfield Bullet, the renowned arm and motorcycle manufacturer Royal Enfield from Reddich in Worcestershire threw the bat in the British engine maker's henhouse. That was in 1948. Shortly after the war, it came to the smaller motorcycle manufacturers, a traditional family business that had already built motorcycles from 1901 and had manifested itself in competitions mainly in cross and trial sport with a new engine from the Bullet line, which was already selling reasonably well for the same war . The first generation Bullets, built from 1933, had already been produced in very solid and high-quality technology. Bullets sold under the strong marketing eeh, sales cry: "Made like a gun". The second generation Bullets, made under the supervision of Royal Enfield's head of development Tony Tony-Jones and chief of construction Ted Pardoe, had to breathe fresh air into the British motorcycle world.

The name 'Bullet', so 'bullet' was a reference to the other branch of sport where the company then earned its Pounds: the arms industry. An industry that always gets a dip when peace breaks out again. To stay in the mood: the Bullet hit like a bomb. Because the Bullet 1948 cc G350, presented in November 2, was equipped with modernities such as a swing arm with telescopic spring elements! This technical innovation left the mouth of the mouth of much larger manufacturers. Moreover, bullets were not only machines for use on public roads that were equipped with such a highly modern suspension system, but also the off-road engines, the crossers had that luxury facility. The die-hards had until then the firm conviction that there was nothing better in the terrain than an unsprung rear wheel to ensure optimum traction. NOT! It was the off-road and off-road Enfields with their rear suspension that drove the knuckles with their hard tails in mind.

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