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Review: 2025 Royal Enfield Bear 650

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Review: 2025 Royal Enfield Bear 650

“A motorcycle for Indian markets needs to be made of metal.” That's what Paolo Brovedani, Royal Enfield's now-retired head of research and development, told me when I interviewed him.. If that's the case, then the new Royal Enfield Bear 650 is almost a small

Review: 2024 Royal Enfield Himalayan 450

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Review: 2024 Royal Enfield Himalayan 450

Royal Enfield motorcycles are a peculiar lot. After folding in the U.K. in the 1970s and transferring tooling, IP, and so forth to its partner factory in India, the company operated for decades in static seclusion within India’s massive domestic motorcycle market. Annual sales volumes ran to hundreds

Royal Enfield Introduces 2025 Classic 650 | RoadRUNNER Motorcycle Touring & Travel

Royal Enfield Introduces 2025 Classic 650

Royal Enfield is well-known for producing motorcycles that are simple in just the right way, connecting to the company’s rich heritage. The Classic 350 lives up to its name, but some riders may with it offered a bit more oomph. At the EICMA 2024 show, Royal Enfield delivered with

Royal Enfield Launches Flying Flea Electric Motorcycle Brand

Although electric vehicle (EV) sales are looking wobbly worldwide, many motorcycle manufacturers are still entering the electric bike market—but often under a different name. Harley-Davidson did it under the Livewire name, and now Royal Enfield is also joining the electric motorcycle race as Flying Flea Known for its simple

Review: 2024 Royal Enfield Super Meteor 650

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Review: 2024 Royal Enfield Super Meteor 650

In January 2023, I journeyed to rural India for the domestic launch of Royal Enfield’s new Super Meteor 650 cruiser. Riding in India for two days was a truly unique experience and the Super Meteor 650 proved to be capable, comfortable, and tough enough to take on the country’

Royal Enfield Shotgun 650—First Look

Royal Enfield Shotgun 650—First Look

Custom motorcycles—some riders like them, some dislike them, and some would like to like them but getting started with one can be daunting. Royal Enfield’s machines have always been fertile ground for customizations, thanks to their intentionally simple design. Now, the company is making it even easier to

Royal Enfield’s Project Origin

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Royal Enfield’s Project Origin

The company we know today as Royal Enfield began as Enfield Bicycle Company in the U.K. in the 1890s. As the 20th century dawned, Enfield engineers fitted a combustion engine to a bicycle-type frame and sent power to the rear wheel via belts and pulleys. In an unusual move,

Our Favorite Motorcycles of 2023

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Our Favorite Motorcycles of 2023

With each new generation, motorcycles become quicker, more powerful, and more technologically savvy. But, we aren't on the hunt for what bikes look great on paper. We look for character, usability, accessibility, and which motorcycles are just plain fun to ride. It's not just about the

Review: Royal Enfield Hunter 350

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Review: Royal Enfield Hunter 350

Royal Enfield has come on very strong these past few years, tapping into the generational emergence of young people buying into active lifestyles, specifically motorcycling. The company (the oldest motorcycle manufacturer in the world) has managed to capture the fancy of newbies with a range of accessible, unintimidating smaller displacement

Review: Royal Enfield Super Meteor 650

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Review: Royal Enfield Super Meteor 650

Riding motorcycles in India is a unique experience for those habituated to the relative predictability of American, Japanese, and European roads. For one thing, there are a lot more cows—and they tend to be on the road. That’s just daily life for the millions of riders aboard the

Motorcycle Review: 2019 Royal Enfield INT650 | RoadRUNNER Motorcycle Touring & Travel

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Review: 2019 Royal Enfield INT650

I like the seating position on a Universal Japanese Motorcycle (UJM) and on classic British iron. I also like their looks. When I was a kid, my mom suggested I try building a model airplane. At the time, I was so young—probably around 7—that I didn’t know

Review: 2023 Royal Enfield Scram 411

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Review: 2023 Royal Enfield Scram 411

Motorcycles and motorcycling, as well as the people who ride them, are changing. Over the past decade, among many enthusiasts, there has been a noticeable swing away from focusing on raw power, performance, and top speed in favor of more simplistic riding experiences. A large segment of the motorcycle community—

2019 Royal Enfield Interceptor 650

Review: 2019 Royal Enfield Interceptor 650

Hipsters Rejoice! > Motorcycles have improved by leaps and bounds in the last 50-plus years, with electronic fuel injection, anti-lock braking systems, adjustable suspension, disk brakes, and more. Technology doesn’t come cheap, however. Fast-forward to the present and every coffee-sniffing, pant-rolling, pipe-smoking hipster is scouring Craigslist for a used

Review: 2018 Royal Enfield Himalayan

Review: 2018 Royal Enfield Himalayan

A Brand New, Old School Adventure Bike > Like many others, I’ve been drooling over photos of the Royal Enfield Himalayan since they first began circulating around the internet a couple of years ago. A retro-styled, middle-weight adventure bike off-the-shelf. Did they make this just for me? How did

Review: 2014 Royal Enfield Continental GT

Review: 2014 Royal Enfield Continental GT

> The 2014 Royal Enfield Continental is slow, terrible on the highway, and completely and utterly impractical. Not only that, but it vibrates excessively at any speed above 10 mph, doesn’t have ABS or traction control, and lacks engine mapping modes and other technological advances. And I love it.

Review:1968 Royal Enfield Interceptor TT Mk1A

Review:1968 Royal Enfield Interceptor TT Mk1A

> Jim Stothard wasn't looking for a motorcycle when he heard about the Royal Enfield his boss had in storage. He wasn't even sure what an Enfield was. But the idea of buying it wouldn't go away. It took two years of needling and