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British Bikes / Re: Enfield tank panel colour ?
« Last post by R on January 21, 2026, 09:04:38 AM »
This postwar Model G appears to have been merely done with aluminium paint.
Although the concentric carb sez its a recent resto.
Hmmm.

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British Bikes / Enfield tank panel colour ?
« Last post by R on January 20, 2026, 07:39:30 AM »
Has anyone faced the task of doing the tank panels on a prewar Enfield.
What colour did you use ?



The brochure describes it as 'chrome tank with silver tank panels'.
But plain ole silver paint seems not right, its got a white look to it ?
And its pre-metallic paint, so no answers in that direction...
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British Bikes / Re: Royal Enfield HiFi Blue ?
« Last post by R on January 07, 2026, 09:14:46 PM »
Thanks for the comments folks.
Yes, experienced painters recommend painting a bikes topcoat all from the one can, if possible.
'Cause that 2nd can they supplied may not be exactly the same shade.
And I have seen this myself.
Mixing it up in a larger can then splitting into 2 smaller ones helps prevent this.



This, and other pics, should be good enough to get a match from.
Seems it was a single stage enamel pearl, in common with the numerous other shades of
polychromatic enamels Enfields used  over the decades.

Curiously, HD also used a pearl type shade they called HiFi blue. You can still buy it over the parts counter. ?
A stronger shade of blue though, it would be a mistake to assume it was the same.
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British Bikes / Re: Royal Enfield HiFi Blue ?
« Last post by Rex on January 07, 2026, 10:08:03 AM »
Yes and no. The final colour usually depended on what the paint shop foreman had in the vats that day, and nothing to do with an advertising pamphlet printed possibly months before.
Indian Red is a perfect example; Indian afficionados endlessly obsess over this, but the reality is it's just what old Billy-Bob and Cyrus had available to use.
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British Bikes / Re: Royal Enfield HiFi Blue ?
« Last post by cardan on January 07, 2026, 09:09:54 AM »
Sorry can't really help. But the good news is there aren't too many REs of this period (are we close to 1970?) so it will probably never be parked next to another machine in the same colour. Always funny to see the "common" makes painted in a wide range of approximations to the original!

Leon
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British Bikes / Royal Enfield HiFi Blue ?
« Last post by R on January 07, 2026, 03:17:16 AM »
Someone here is looking to paint their 60s Enfield twin in the HiFi Blue listed then.
Anyone know if this a metallic colour, a candy apple colour or a pearl type paint ?

We see that RS Bikepaints lists it as Polychromatic HiFi Blue
- which would make it a single stage pearl type paint.
A more modern version may use a clear topcoat.

I recall seeing a nice example in Wales, done entirely using spraycans !
And a LOT of manhours....

A sample, selected at random.
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British Bikes / Re: Help identifying a petrol tank
« Last post by chaterlea25 on December 25, 2025, 12:50:52 AM »
Hi All
The B and  C (speedo in) tanks are much more pointed at the rear

John
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Japanese Bikes / Re: Reed valve breather and catch can build.
« Last post by Rex on December 23, 2025, 09:49:19 PM »
Toglhot was a tw*t too..
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Identify these bikes! / Re: Strange JAP cylinder
« Last post by Ralf89 on December 23, 2025, 10:29:07 AM »
Hi,
thank you for your answer and sorry for my late response.
I want to use this engine in an motorcycle of a almost unknown small austrian brand called D.S.H. They used all kinds of Villiers and JAP engines, and this engine would fit perfectly in the frame.
Thanks
Regards
Ralf
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