THE BEST OF BOTH
It was September 2019. I’m always looking for a project and I’d been hatching ideas about building a Bulsader, an Enfield BUL-let engine in a cru-SADER frame, having seen Keith Latherton’s racing Bulsader at a show. One VMCC Cheshire Cats section colleague who I’ll call Malcolm to protect (or maybe expose!) him suggested that a better name might be Cru-et...
Why build a Bulsader? It’s the old story of picking the best bits of two existing production bikes and creating the ultimate combination to optimise weight, power, height, style, etc, rather like Tritons, Trifields, Norvins and other combinations from the past. Plus, I’ve enjoyed doing several standard rebuilds in the past and fancied upping the ante in terms of the challenge.
So why a combination of two Royal Enfields? Another of my VMCC section colleagues tried to persuade me that a Trifield would be more sensible, but I ignored him.
The fact is that I just enjoy and feel comfortable working on Enfields. I’d been browsing Hitchcocks’ website and spotted a Crusader rolling chassis that would form the basis of such a project. I had a Bullet gearbox left over from a previous project too, so all I needed was an engine, wasn’t it? Hold that thought – the one
