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ALUMINUM ENFIELD
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ALUMINUM ENFIELD
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Count Steer
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Re: ALUMINUM ENFIELD
Cool. I'd ditch the silly mirrors and the funny little light and put some tyres on that don't look like Moggy Thou cross-ply ones though.
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Re: ALUMINUM ENFIELD
It has a certain appeal.... it looks a bit like one of those generic shaped statuettes that you see in TK-Maxx that's supposed to be an airplane but isn't any specific airplane, just a generic "airplane" shape.
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Count Steer
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Re: ALUMINUM ENFIELD
I just think that, for the most part, the engineering is really rather good. The aesthetics well, as always, it's a matter of taste. The overall effect is 
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Re: ALUMINUM ENFIELD
In a Rorschach test / first thing you think of way this was the first thing I thought of:
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The Spin Doctor
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Re: ALUMINUM ENFIELD
Real? Or a render?
One inch of suspension travel up front before the tyre hits the bodywork... and disc wheels would make it horrible in any kind of crosswind.
One inch of suspension travel up front before the tyre hits the bodywork... and disc wheels would make it horrible in any kind of crosswind.
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Re: ALUMINUM ENFIELD
There's some high quality tin-bashing gone on there, but the standard RE 650 Inter looks far better. And it would be several hundred percent more practical.
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