2002 Royal Enfield Bullet Deluxe review from United States of America

The front fender stays keep cracking in half, the ignition advance mechanism wore out after only 2000 miles and would over advance the engine, replaced it with an electronic ignition. The standard points engine was extremely difficult to time with any accuracy unless you had a dial micrometer to measure TDC.

Installed the RH shift kit as the LH shift was a cobbled together collection of shafts and linkages that made a clunky shifting transmission even more difficult to shift.

The seat came unglued from its metal pan and was extremely uncomfortable, replaced with an English made seat, which is very nice.

The charging system was incapable of maintaining the battery with a sufficient charge to operate the starter more than three time before it wouldn't crank. Thank god it's got a kick starter. Finally I just removed the starter and converted it to only kick start, in the process I found out that, with an electric starter, the primary chain drive is not adjustable and if you do try and adjust it, you'll grind one of the alternator mounts in two.

The original Avon tyres are rayon corded and make a nice handling bike handle squirrley. Went to Dunlops front and rear.

The original oil pumps, yes, it has two, are too small and don't push enough volume of oil for anything over moped speed. I installed high volume pumps, it should come with these.

Slow... Slow... Slow, but it handles very nice and is incredibly stable once the Avon's are gone. Anything over 50 mph is an exercise in sadism. This thing was made to go about 45mph tops, so it's pretty much useless in the U.S.