You're a bad influence...

by Paul , Monday, January 26, 2015, 10:29 (3529 days ago) @ Slow Hand

You just might have started something. Your post reminded me that a few years ago I stumbled across a tiny Royal Enfield dealership in Bogotá. With that in mind after your nudge, I got to digging and it turns out that just last year one of our largest bike assemblers/distributors became the official importers for RE down here. The shop I stumbled across was pricing them high and selling few. RE's CEO in India is focusing on becoming the world leader in the midsized bike market - which is increasing down here and currently only occupied by crotch rockets in the 200-250 CC range. There are no local RE dealers yet, only the two biggest markets have them so far - Bogotá and Medellin. Still, it's early in the game and they are just coming online so we'll see how things play out. After digging around the Indian forums a bit as well as youtube, this thing looks quite interesting. It may be just the thing for tooling around the Andes, since they haul them all over the Himalayas with good results. Gonna have to do some more digging for info.

Thanks for the reminder!