Lots of pictures

This Stilltime Collection has lots of old pictures, including several dozens of Enfields, just look for them with the search engine it has. In particular there are a couple of detailed pictures of Enfield trikes I had not seen before.

Our man in Colombia takes a spill

Mateo del Rio is the owner of Royal Enfield Colombia. On the weekends, he leaves his Royal Enfields behind and heads for the track with his Kawasaki Ninja 250. In a recent race he suffered a nasty high-sider. Here is video of the incident. Fortunately he is ok.

Victory in Rhodesia

Southern Rhodesia used to be the colonial name of modern Zimbabwe (Northern Rhodesia was the modern Zambia), and Gatooma the colonial name of modern Kadoma, a town 90 miles southwest of the capital, Harare. A race took place in 1916 and was won by a Royal Enfield. The article does not report the result of the potato race, but since it was carried out with "ladies occupying the sidecars" and nothing was impossible for an Enfield sidecar, we conjecture it was won as well! From The Motor Cycle January 4th 1917.

More on the plaque and Richard Hammond

 More details of the unveiling.

Flagship

 Royal Enfield opens its first-ever flagship dealership in the United States, Baxter Cycles in Marne, Iowa.