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seal that had split in half. It needed to be fix although to be honest I could barely tell the difference between what was working and what wasn’ t, we laughed that Royal Enfield Himalayan suspension is nonexistent.
Riding on to Kohalpur it was clear that all of the oil that had been in the fork and now vacated, there was no longer the tell-tale smear of along the right side of the bike, nor my boot. We needed to have it fixed.
The local Royal Enfield dealer and mechanic did their best to rectify the problem however, an ageing 411cc Himalayan was new to them, they’ d never seen one in the flesh, apparently adventure bikes are not a thing in Nepal, at least in these parts. I found this incredulous as India was literally just down the road, backed by a strong wind one could spit across the border, and yet Royal Enfield’ s were considered a thing of great lust, something to aspire to, so no one wanted a dirty old Himalayan, no, a Classic was the bike to covert.
We were sent closer to the border, to Nepalgunj, an industrial suburban township where whole streets were dedicated to just the one industry. Eventually finding the street dedicated to mechanical repairs we found the workshop that looked nothing like its profile on Google Maps. Not a great sign compounded when the head mechanic said he had no fork seals to fit the Himalayan but did have another dirt bike we could salvage and seal from and hoped that it fit. We were reassured it would as they were both‘ dirt bikes’. Confidence was low, we decided not
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