Motorcycle factory

[DaveR]

An interesting video of motorcycle assembly at the Royal Enfield factory in Oregadam, India.
Just the first few minutes is worth watching for the skill shown in the hand painted pin striping.

โรงงานผลิตมอเตอร์ไซค์ Royal Enfield ที่อินเดีย - YouTube

[Nessism]

That factory looks to be running at quite a high rate. A quick google search suggests they are making in excess of 48k bikes/month. That's rippin.

Edit: the 48k number is total number of bikes RE makes, I'm not sure how many factories they have.

[dpep]

Those guys pinstriping the tanks always stun me. How can they do that? Tank after tank; ho hum.
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[Maddevill]

When I was in Bologna training on the 2006 Ducati Desmosedici, they gave us a tour of the factory. Very modern and streamlined and modern. One line where engines got built, another for chassis. Overhead tracks everywhere. At the end is a finished bike. Oil is added and its immediately pushed into the dyno room where every bike
is run to redline in every gear. Made me less concerned about break in mileage. I peeked in the door of the race shop but got shooed away pretty fast.

Mad

[alke46]

Very impressive. Only wish I could understand their language.

[argonsagas]

Very impressive. Only wish I could understand their language.

Sounds very much like we what we hear every day in this part of Canada.

The actual language that gets used most varies considerably in different regions and/or localities across India.
There are more than a hundred actual historical languages in every day use, along with the major ones, plus the dialects within them..
I have learned to understand some words in Hindi and Punjabi, but we have friends from South India and when they chatter with their friends in their own language I cannot understand a single word.

[argonsagas]

Those guys pinstriping the tanks always stun me. How can they do that? Tank after tank; ho hum.
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Perhaps they look forward to lots of beer at the end of the day or week....when they can get tanked themselves?
Do they get Red Stripe in India?

[Rich82GS750TZ]

Apropos to nothing, my 20 yr old kid is teaching himself Sanskrit. No idea why. But it’s kinda cool.

[bwringer]

I heard bits and pieces of English here and there, and all the signs seemed to have English translations.

The ladies slapping transmissions together with hardly a glance impressed me. I suppose after a couple thousand you get pretty good at it. If you've only done a few, transmission assembly is a high-stakes half-day brain-bender.

Even in some of the most automated modern factories in the world, it's pretty amazing how many human hands and brains are still needed.

[1980GS1000E]

Indian motorcycles.