Difference between revisions of "Royal Enfield Model K"
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[[File:Royal Enfield Model K.jpg|300px|thumb|Royal Enfield Model K]] | [[File:Royal Enfield Model K.jpg|300px|thumb|Royal Enfield Model K]] | ||
The 11-50 [[Brough-Superior]] (11 RAC horse power/50 bhp) at 'only' 1096cc, left the 1,140 cc [[Royal Enfield]] Model K as the most massive [[motorcycle]] available on the British pre-war market. But whereas the rider of today equates size with shattering speed, the big Enfield was not exceptional. Certainly it could be supplied to special order, with solo ratios in its four-speed gearbox, but sidecar gearing was standard, for the Model K's role in life was as a heavy haulier. | |||
This was the machine to which a trader would attach a float to carry ladders, bags of cement, and the tools of a builder's business; it would carry a farmer's beasts to market; with a suitably decorated box chair, it sold ice-cream at the seaside on sunny summer Sundays; and, neglected and unkempt, with a plank tied to a bare sidecar chassis, it was a motorcycle dealer's hack, used to deliver or collect a customer's machine. | This was the machine to which a trader would attach a float to carry ladders, bags of cement, and the tools of a builder's business; it would carry a farmer's beasts to market; with a suitably decorated box chair, it sold ice-cream at the seaside on sunny summer Sundays; and, neglected and unkempt, with a plank tied to a bare sidecar chassis, it was a motorcycle dealer's hack, used to deliver or collect a customer's machine. | ||