should we hold manufacturers accountable to set standards of i don't know maybe in the
first 10,000 miles the thing shouldn't piss gas and piss oil everywhere? i think so maybe i'm
crazy! what up guys sometimes you guys ask me hey adrian how come you don't like royal enfields well
here's one that i see way too often. this must be like the third or fourth time it's
been going to the shop in the last year and a half maybe. and um i think most recently like
they just do a lot of stuff where things go wrong and there's sort of this... I was talking to the
owner and we kind of agree it's sort of a high maintenance diva bike kind of situation where
things just keep sort of failing on it. in this case now it's going to get the entire gas tank
replaced which isn't going to be cheap but the seal just you can tell just spills gas. it doesn't
seal the fuel in there. it's disappointing because it's a bike that i want to love but uh yeah anyway
now overall when you're looking up close at it you can tell that there's some really visible
seams in the stuff where the finish isn't nice and rounded like it is on uh triumph's bikes.
totally different price points so that's understandable don't get me wrong.
obviously there's some side covers that are off right now fair enough. but
unfortunately this one just keeps going back to the shop for different things failing on it.
probably could do with an oil change, but honestly you don't have to worry about that oil because
it leaks it out anyway. so that's how much it leaked in just like the
10 minutes 15 minutes tops that it was on the truck bed. i guess what i'm getting at is most
of the time when you have motorcycles going to a shop, and it's not like a warranty failure,
it's just something has failed, more often than not a lot more often than people might imagine,
it's not that motorcycles have failed their owners, it's that owners have failed to
take care of their motorcycle and that's why something went wrong. in the case of
the royal enfield that's that's not really the case. these guys have like three or four bikes
they know how to take care of bikes. it's just that this enfield just keeps having stuff wrong
with it. and you might be thinking well it's 10 years old whatever. granted yeah okay sure it is
about 10 years old but shouldn't that be the real test? any bike brand new should be perfect right?
can it actually hold up more than five years or is it just you better have it when it's new and get
rid of it real quick otherwise you're screwed with a bad bike. because in my opinion a good bike if
you take care of it last longer than five years. so that bike had about under 8,000 kilometers
around 8 000 kilometers just about 5,000 miles. 5 000 miles you shouldn't be having stuff leaking
everywhere. you shouldn't be having to replace your um fuel tank because you've already tried
to replace the fuel cap and the seal, and that's not doing it. to me that says that there are
manufacturing issues. serious case of you get what you pay for basically long story short.
and a lot of people will say but adrian the new royal enfields are so much better, but as a guy
who's been riding for 15 years, i heard that when the previous group of royal enfields came out,
and i'm still not impressed with those and that's why i still can't recommend those to anybody,
and i don't think right now any of us honestly truthfully
have enough experience with these things the new royal enfields i'm talking about simply because
they haven't been out all that long. so even if you're somebody who you put fifty thousand clicks
the bike's only two years, old three years old, whatever it is, we haven't had time to see how
well these things hold up to the tests of time and i think that's a big part of of any vehicle's real
reliability rating, is not just kilometers used, or i've had it for two years it's been fine. it's
the first two years it should be fine if it was anything but perfect - you get my point we need
to make sure that the standards are in line with reality and reality is you can't judge a
new motorcycle by its first two years. you really got to give it about five years that's when you
can honestly and accurately and really truthfully give an honest yes or no on the reliability of a
vehicle and the new royal enfields aren't there yet. anyway feel free to disagree with me down in
the comments section in an argument with yourself um or if you agree with me also leave a comment
let me know what you guys think. am i being uh too harsh on these things? have i just seen too many
people that are friends of mine getting burned with having to take their motorcycles,
chiefly royal enfields, back to the shop over and over because more stuff goes wrong
and more stuff gets stripped and the quality and the finish just doesn't impress me? maybe.
maybe have i been spoiled by japanese motorcycles that you know don't do these things? maybe.
should we hold manufacturers accountable to set standards of i don't know maybe in the first
10,000 miles the thing shouldn't piss gas and piss oil everywhere? i think so maybe i'm crazy! leave
a comment let me know as always thank you guys so much for watching my rants sorry about this
um next one will hopefully be a little bit more informative as always ride safe peace