FETTLING THE FURY

The Royal Enfield Fury was the scrambles version of the final, big-head model of the Redditch 500 Bullet. Aimed at BSA’s DBD34 competition models, it was probably a case of ‘too little, too late’ and not very many were made; around 190 is the number usually quoted. The Gold Star certainly had much more time to evolve and gain acceptance, while the RE scrambler appeared to be much more of an afterthought – not much more than a few trick parts stuck onto the standard Bullet 500.

The hottest of these go-faster additions was the cylinder head, also seen on the last roadgoing versions of the 500 Bullet. In Fury spec it boasted a massive 1½” inlet port to go with the equally large Amal GP carburettor. Mechanically, the Fury differed from the last Bullets only with this larger inlet port, a lighter flywheel assembly, higher compression ratio (several options were available) and the hotter ‘R’ cams.

They still used the same old alloy conrod, though, and this just wasn’t really up to the sort of engine speeds and stresses the high state of tune