Nepal: Land of Rejected Martin Lawrence Tag Lines
Once we got our shit together we headed into town for the day’s next adventure – riding Royal Enfield motorcycles around Pokhara to a couple of sights. Now, Royal Enfields are old post-WWII British motorcycles still manufactured at one of the original plants (and using the original manufacturing equipment!) in India without significant changes until the past few years. Naturally, the few Royal Enfields available for rent on Pokhara were not exactly current models, so this meant a couple of things. First, just the sight of these beautiful machines is enough to warm the heart of any motorcycle enthusiast, taking you back to the days when bikes were simpler, you didn’t need a year-long specialist class to handle basic repair and maintenance, and motorcycles were a truer expression of what motorcycles were meant to be. Second, it meant that these bikes are weird, temperamental as hell, guaranteed to break down, and unless perfectly maintained an almost certain safety hazard, and generally a great reminder of why we consider modern bikes an improvement on those simpler, truer designs.
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