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2023 Royal Enfield Hunter 350 Review – First Ride

A gateway drug to motorcycle enthusiasm Credit: Brandon Bunch and Josh Shipps Being a motorcycle publication, Motorcycle.com largely caters to enthusiast readers. However, for every enthusiast there was once a potential rider who was curious about motorcycles. Also, let’s not forget the multitudes of other motorcycle-curious folks who never transitioned into the rider fold for one reason or another.

MO Interview: Royal Enfield Super Meteor 650 Designer Adrian Sellers

The man with overall responsibility for creating Royal Enfield’s first twin-cylinder modern-era cruiser is New Jersey native Adrian Sellers, 42, who after a four-year stint with Honda R&D in Italy and, before that, nine years at Yamaha’s Design Laboratory in Los Angeles, was appointed the Indian company’s Head of Custom and Motorsport in 2016, based at its UK Technology Centre at Bruntingthorpe. Let’s leave it to him to tell us how the ground-breaking Super Meteor 650 came about. 2023 Royal Enfield Super Meteor 650 Review “In my previous roles I ended up doing a lot of research into the Custom scene, as part of keeping abreast of styling trends and so on.

2023 Royal Enfield Super Meteor 650 Review - First Ride

Riding Royal Enfield's cruisers through the Indian countryside Credit: Photos by Royal Enfield/Jason Critchell & Chippy Wood Five years on from the 2018 launch of its first ever twin-cylinder models to be made in India, since when over 400,000 examples of the Interceptor 650 and Continental GT 650 have been sold around the world, Royal Enfield has now added the first of a much-anticipated series of spinoff models to its range. Join the Royal Enfield Forum Unveiled at last November’s EICMA Milan Show and already in production at RE’s Chennai plant for global deliveries to commence in March, the Super Meteor 650 is available in two versions targeting different slices of the middleweight cruiser market. Named after Royal Enfield’s first 100mph model launched back in 1955, a 700cc breakthrough bike marketed as a go-anywhere mile-eater which was available for the first time from any manufacturer with its own array of optional touring equipment, these are both powered by the same air/oil-cooled eight-valve 648cc parallel-twin engine with central chain-driven SOHC equipping the Interceptor and Continental GT.

2023 Royal Enfield Super Meteor 650 First Look

Mid-sized cruiser also offered in a Grand Tourer variant Credit: Photos by Ryan Adams and Royal Enfield Royal Enfield announced a new cruiser model featuring the 648cc Parallel-Twin engine that also powers the Interceptor 650 and Continental GT 650. The new Super Meteor 650, and the Super Meteor 650 Grand Tourer variant, The air-cooled engine claims an output of 46.4 hp at 7,250 rpm and 38.6 lb-ft. at 5,650 rpm, which are about the same peak figures claimed by the other 650 models, but the Super Meteor gets there a little higher on rev range.

2023 Royal Enfield Scram 411 Review - First Ride

The Himalayan you love, with a twist I’m a big fan of scramblers that can actually Scram, ya dig? When a production scrambler has the chops and capability to do what those customized rigs did back in the good ol’ days, well, that’s the real deal. Isn’t it?

2022 Royal Enfield Classic 350 Review - First Ride

Is it worthy of slotting in next to Enfield's latest models? Credit: Photos by Brandon Bunch Things move at their own pace in the South. When it’s not stifling, the warm, humid breeze gently blowing through the Spanish moss-strewn southern live oaks relaxes in a way that you’d be hard-pressed to find elsewhere.

Royal Enfield Unveils SG650 Concept

Taking the 650 Twin in new - and old - directions Fans of Royal Enfield’s Continental GT and Interceptor 650 owe it to themselves to take a long look at the SG650 Concept. This neoretro interpretation of the platform sure turned our heads. [UPDATE: Eicher Motors, which owns RE, had previously filed trademark applications in multiple markets for the name “Royal Enfield Shotgun”.

2022 Royal Enfield Himalayan Review

A subjectively handsome, and objectively good performing motorcycle for $5,299. There’s no shortage of expensive, big-displacement, powerful Adventure-Touring motorcycles. Then there’s the mid-displacement segment that is oftentimes only marginally less expensive.

2021 Royal Enfield Meteor 350 First Look

Here's to 120 years of keeping it simple Everybody wants to win the heritage war, including Royal Enfield, who claim they’re the oldest motorcycle marque out there in continuous production – since 1901. Does it matter that about half those years were in India? I guess it shouldn’t.

Royal Enfield Files for Flying Flea and Roadster Trademarks

Eicher Motors has filed trademark applications for two potential models: “Royal Enfield Flying Flea” and “Royal Enfield Roadster”. The trademark applications were filed yesterday with the European Union Intellectual Property Office for use on “motorcycles; parts and fittings therefore,” as well as for various clothing items. The Flying Flea name holds a special historical significance for Royal Enfield, going back to its English roots.