Royal Enfield's long waiting periods to get shorter in 2012.

Royal Enfield fans smitten by the very retro looking Classic 500, often are having to stare at waiting periods running up to ten months. Frustrated, many of these potential customers even junk their plans of buying the Royal Enfield Classic 350/500 because of this inordinately long waiting period.

Royal Enfield has, for long been a niche player in the motorcycle market and was thence totally under prepared to deal with the huge demand that played out with the launch of it’s latest range of reliable and fuel efficient UCE engined, retro motorcycle models.Finally things seem to be moving at Royal Enfield, with the firm now planning to up production to 100,000 units a year in 2012.

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Royal Enfield heads to Philippines

Known for its craggy and rough looks with powerful performance, the idealistic motorcycle Royal Enfield is speculating to extend its boundaries to Philippines. It is reported that Royal Enfield made its entry in Philippines market from Roadhouse Manila Bay where it unveiled its first 500cc touring bike in the market along with its other three more siblings which include Royal Enfield Bullet in Battle Green color, the Royal Enfield Classic Chrome and Royal Enfield Bullet Electra Deluxe. Technically all these motorcycles carry some common features adorned in them which include Electronic Fuel Injection (EFI), a toolbox on the right hand side and gas filled shock absorbers. Various parts integrated in these variants of Royal Enfield for instance aluminum castings, side panels, chrome gas tank are manually painted and designed.

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ROYAL ENFIELD CLASSIC CHROME 500 AND DESERT STORM

 Royal Enfield, a unit of Eicher Motors Ltd, announced the launch of the two leisure bikes. The bikes, Classic Chrome and Desert Storm, being limited edition products, would be available at select brand stores and dealerships across the country. The Classic Chrome, priced at Rs1,65,400 (on road Mumbai), is equipped with a 500cc twin-spark engine, with 27.2 bhp power output. The Desert Storm, too, boasts of a 500cc twin-spark engine and is priced at Rs1,58,200 on road Mumbai.

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