Himalayan 650

[bigpoppa]

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Always happy to see a bike that makes motorcycling accessible to more people, looks interesting, by the sound of things perhaps competition for the vstrom? Cant imagine beating the suzuki in the HP department, but perhaps a more modern design and probably much cheaper?

Royal Enfield Himalayan 650cc Twin Spied In Near Production Form - ADV Pulse

Rumors have been swirling around for years about a super-sized Royal Enfield Himalayan 650, an adventure bike that would put their popular parallel-twin engine to good use. As we reported in 2021, Royal Enfield had two large dirt-oriented models in mind, one of which turned out to be the Bear...

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[Jampy00]

Always happy to see a bike that makes motorcycling accessible to more people.

I 100% agree, looks like an interesting and "affordable" choice.

 

[nakkers]

I really find RE 650 twin appealing and even though adv style bikes are not my cuppa, I think they have a winner.


Just like their classic standard style with decent and capable power plant.

 

[iblastoff]

the 650 is a sweet, gentle engine. optimally i'd love to see 65'ish hp for their street bikes (i have the GT650), but i dunno if RE will ever leave that 'global' segment of limited 48hp to appease A2 learners permits for a long while.

there are rumblings of a 750cc incoming.

 

[TK4]

the 650 is a sweet, gentle engine. optimally i'd love to see 65'ish hp for their street bikes (i have the GT650), but i dunno if RE will ever leave that 'global' segment of limited 48hp to appease A2 learners permits for a long while.

there are rumblings of a 750cc incoming.

There's been a few guys build full blown 865s that claim 75-80 hp but I've yet to see any meaningful dyno charts.

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