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Monday, April 26, 2010

Old and new

I had not realized how closely the C5 resembles a 1951 bike. Here in the same color old: (from "The legend rides on" by Gordon May) and new: (photo by Jeff Allen, Cycle World)
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  1. David BlascoApril 26, 2010 at 7:21 AM

    That is startling! Only on thorough examination do the differences start to become apparent. But the more you look, the better the "old" bike looks. A bit more curve in the C5 exhaust pipe along its run would make a tremendous improvement. Tone down the mirrors a little bit. Add the optional pillion seat (which I think looks like a double for the one on the old bike) pose the bike on its side stand in the grass, and you'd be very close.

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  2. HMR, MumbaiApril 26, 2010 at 11:36 PM

    The Royal Enfield G2 was the inspiration behind the design of the C5 and the designer S Sivakumar spent many months in England researching archival material on the G2 to get the right styling and design cues.

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