One side of the room where I met Vimal Sumbly offered floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking Bangkok's skyline, but it was what was on the opposite side that perfectly captured the adventurous spirit of the man who heads the Asia-Pacific business of the India-based motorcycle manufacturer Royal Enfield.
It was exactly 130 years ago, in 1891, when Bob Walker Smith and Albert Eadie bought George Townsend & Co., a needle company that just then started making bicycles. It was to be the start of what we now know as Royal Enfield, one of the oldest motorcycle makers on the planet, and the go-to brand for people in the market for middleweights with small-displacement engines.
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