Pillion comfort mattered to me because my mother would definitely go out on rides with me so the Dominar 400 was ruled out as well. Then I looked for the Benelli Imperiale 400 and not seeing too many on the road along with somewhat questionable service costs, I decided to chuck that out as well. Meanwhile, one of my school friends owned a Jawa 42, and I had a lot of love for the Jawas, especially the looks, and his phone call convinced me enough to not pick up a Jawa. Mom: Alright cool, keep looking out for bikes in that price range but son- no KTMs. Me: I don't know, maybe around 1.5-1.7 lacs. Mom: slightly raising her voice to get my serious attention: How much do Enfields cost? My answer: Sure, let me look for how much hero glamour or the honda unicorn is. Next question from her: You have ridden scooters, why do you want to not grow up? Why don't you consider a bike for yourself because I can't hobble around taking you to places, or making you rely on public transport because I know how tiring it is, and by selling paintings and photographs online (online = Reddit and discord) you have made around 2 lacs in savings?
In my third year of college, and my mother slowly seeing through the sunset of her life, she one day asked me what's the current market for 2 wheelers, and I was like the TVS Luna costs roughly 37-38,000 on road in Guwahati and she was dumbfounded and observed a minute of silence. When the bike had parted I had promised to myself that I will gift myself a bike when I consider myself ready to face this world, and ever since my savings fund had opened up for the bike. Personally, I had parted ways with my Dad in the Spring of 2015 and with him had left his Harley as well, my mother had gifted me a Vespa LX125 in yellow and he had ruined riding the Vespa to the extent of just selling it off. I am currently 22 years old and a student, and besides being an admirer of bikes and slightly familiar with technical terms I am still not too well versed with technical terminologies/workarounds, so kindly forgive my ignorance in certain matters.I have been a pillion rider on a lot of bikes, from my first ever bike being the 2009 Bajaj Pulsar 200 to the 2010 Royal Enfield Classic 500 to the 2013 Harley Davidson Iron 883 and ending the forever pillion rider journey on the 2016 Hyosung Aquila 650 but this Enfield is the first bike I myself have ever owned, and rode extensively for now.BHPian ramakashyap1999 recently shared this with other enthusiasts.