Wrench'n Ride'n

 

 

 

"Little Dug" has been on a diet.  I do love that Royal Enfield still uses steel for the mud guards. So why would I go to Plastic guards? The help that 20 bhp engine out? Also removed the rear seat frame and the heat shields on the cat pipe. This all added up to 13 kilos.  The rear guard is a cut down plastic motocross front guard. It is mounted to the seat base plate and with 2 cut down rear guard stays from a C5 Bullet. The front, which was done sometime ago, is 2 small cafe racer plastic guards bolted together and then mounted to front forks via a hand made bracket.  As I get asked so many times as to what tyres I am running, they are Duro HF308 Tyres 3.50 19 front. 400 18 Rear. They are really good on gravel/hard packed dirt roads and really ok on wet tar. 

I think I have woken this little docile engine up a bit with the DNA airfilter and FuelX Pro. No it has not given me more horsepower, I knew it would not do this. What it has given me is a smoother engine (especially in 4th gear pulling up hills.) . A bit more midrange grunt. Midrange grunt is good for pulling up hills. I have noticed a more pronounced Dug Dug sound from the exhaust. I am also running a Hitchcock's stainless Long Muffler for the 350/500 UCE bikes. I have fitted a DB killer too. I currently have the FuelX pro set to "8". "3" is the factory setting for the bike. Let's not forget that I have the Hunter ECU/Throttle body fitted too as this takes away the limiter that's stops the bike from going over 114km/h.  Was it worth the money? For me, yes. Engine smoothness, more pull up hills in 4th, and sounds better make it worth it to me. 

Now a scrambler. Well sort of.  Used a cut down Yamaha WR450 front guard as rear guard which was then attached to the RE rear frame/seat rack. Vintage style tail light. Smaller indicators.  So much easier to get the rear wheel out now. On the left side a Triumph Bonnie saddlebag frame fitted so I can hang bag off it.  Can't believe how heavy the original rear guard and mounting frame weighs. I have not put it on scales but it is heavy.  I know I could have bought a scrambler kit from a company in India but that's no fun for me. I like to make my own.  Not everyone is going to like what I have done to my bike, but it is My bike.

 Muffler change. Hitchcocks stainless muffler off my mothballed C5 500 Bullet. Was chrome. Now, the whole system is silver as they did during WW2.  Now has a nice deep Dug Dug to it.

 

 

 

 Uralla Ramble April 2025

  I used ChatGPT with this command "turn this image into hot wheels packaging" and got this...

 

 

 

 

 

  Mini Ape bars. (Pro Taper bars for a DR110) Comfy. Helps my osteoarthritis in my hands. Way less pressure on the thumb joints.