So when I called Shahwar out of the blue and asked him to join me he didn’t hesitate and said he had the perfect road-test in mind: a 1200km, eight-day return journey from Guhuwati to Tawang, a city in the remote Himalayan state of Arunachal Pradesh home to a soaring 300-year-old monastery where the Dalai Lama found refuge after China invaded Tibet in 1959. Now that it’d been released I had to ride it myself – not on a track or the trails in Australia but in the mighty Himalayas, the mountain range it was designed to conquer. I’ve ridden Bullets all over the world and had closely followed the Himalayan’s development over the past few years. It represents a leap into the 21st century for the maker of the longest-lived motorcycle design in history and a new chapter in the annals of motoring history that I have a strong personal connection to. Inasmuch the Himalayan is more than another new way to get from A to B. The Brits stopped making Bullets in 1967 yet the Indians are still building them today, albeit with more modern engines and brakes. The Bullet was used extensively by the British Army during WWII and by the Indian Army in the decades that followed where it proved so hardy and versatile the Indians started building Bullets of their own. But every year something got in the way.īut in 2017 our stars finally aligned with the launch of the Himalayan – a new motorcycle by Royal Enfield, the company behind the Bullet, a single-cylinder bike designed in 1931 by a subsidiary of the Royal Small Arms Factory in Enfield in the U.K. A one-time motoring journalist from New Delhi who gave up life in the fast lane to run motorcycle tours in the northeast, Shahwar and I met online three years ago when I expressed interest in exploring his part of the world. Please help us out by hitting the “Share” button so that we can keep bringing you more articles and “Follow” us on Facebook so that you get updated when we release new articles.When Shahwar Hussein meets me at the airport in Guhuwati, the gateway to India’s little-visited northeast region – it’s like being reunited with a long lost friend. What is a One Percenter Motorcycle Club?.List of one percenters motorcycle clubs – Hells Angels Patches – Death Head Logo This list of one percenters motorcycle clubs will be added to over time. List of one percenters motorcycle clubs – Outlaws MC Logo Warlocks Motorcycle Club (Pennsylvania).Solo Angeles Club de Motocicletas (Solo Angels MC).Red Devils Motorcycle Club (Original Red Devils Motorcycle Club).Rebels Motorcycle Club (founded Canada). Rebels Motorcycle Club (founded Australia).Pissed Off Bastards Of Bloomington / Pissed off Bastards of Berdoo / POBOB MC.Notorious Motorcycle Club (Germany / Worldwide).
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