Enduro India
There was once a charitable organisation called Global Enduro that offered an annual 2100km charity ride through India. The idea was that the riders paid for a holiday and raised money for charity at the same time.
For a while it was a big event, with 100 or more riders travelling from Old Goa in the north of the Indian state, through the Western Ghats mountains to Kottayam, a city in the state of Kerala.
Every one of them rode a single-cylinder 350cc Royal Enfield Bullet, well before the days of 500cc fuel-injected Bullets. This trip was promoted as ‘life-changing... a once-in-a-lifetime motorcycle adventure’. At that time, my overseas riding had been confined largely to western Europe, so my wife Dee and I decided to have a go. Fourteen years on, I thought I would share this experience with MSL readers – were the claims justified?
Alan Donovan, an old school friend who lived in Australia, agreed to join us, so the first morning saw the three of us surveying 130 Enfields parked in a field behind our hotel at Panaji.
