this is our top five motorcycles of 2022 and if you're a manufacturer and
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it all in the first 10 seconds so just keep going with it just keep going coming in at number five
we have the Honda monkey one two five now that's my surprise some of you but we really love this
bike and it is great fun um and it's a bike that I never thought I would like because it's so small
um I just thought it was some kind of gimmick um but once you get on it it's so much fun
um and you'd think that being over six foot that it wouldn't be very comfortable but you'd be wrong
it is very comfortable it's got a very nice padded seat the riding position is actually
really good which did surprise me as well the fuel economy is out of this world so if you're
getting extremely frustrated with fuel prices at the minute that will save you a lot of money
um you'll probably be getting about 150 miles per gallon which is unbelievable so if you
want a cheap run around to go to the shops or something to get to work on if you've not got
a long commute it would be an ideal bike and yeah the Turning circle's fantastic extremely
light the only downside is if you live in a city it's probably quite easy to steal but there are
security devices that could prevent that happening so that's why the Honda monkey is number five
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foreign [Music] [Applause] coming in at number four we have the Royal Enfield classic 350.
this is a bike that as with many of the royal enfields we fell in love with it's beautiful
styling absolutely quintessential classic styling love the spokes wheels just a stunning machine
and there's loads of nice colors that you can get from Royal Enfield are really good at doing lots
of good colorways it's extremely good value for money as with all Royal enfields they're so cheap
uh Nothing Compares on the market value for money wise looks wise riding feel character which it has
Oodles of uh obviously it's not a very powerful bike so that's why it's not going higher up uh
we like something with a little bit more power but saying that if you're riding
mostly on country lanes narrow country lanes like uh the old man has in Wales you don't really need
any more power than that because you just can't use it you don't open the bike up enough to be
able to use it so that's a perfect machine for trundling along the beautiful country
lanes taking the scenery hear that lovely thump of that 350 motor and just enjoy the ride and
take in all the senses it's the perfect bike for that and it's not going to break the bank
so absolutely brilliant and the reason the Hunter is not making it in the lineup is I know it's the
same engine it's a similar sort of bike we prefer the styling of the classic and also
I prefer the riding position so the hunter is much more um geared up for City riding uh and
the riding position isn't quite as good in my opinion as the classic I prefer the foot pegs
being slightly further forward which they are in the classic whereas on the hunter they're slightly
bent back which is not my favorite but still a very nice bike but the classic just beat it for me
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Scrambler x c I loved that motorcycle look back on our review in the summer
what a fabulous motorcycle and the good things about it it's a classic Bonneville
it looks cool it rides really beautifully it's got a lovely engine plenty of power
plenty of torque it's good on the motorways and it's good on the back roads exploring and
the paint job on the Gold Lion Edition was just superb beautiful stunning motorcycle
the reasons it didn't get higher than number three I'll go into now first of all it's got
this what I think is a horrible ugly um screen thing a bit modern it's on a few of the traps and
they already have these beautiful analog dials or clocks on some of the other bonnevilles and
that would just bring it to a classier level so a rev counter and a speedometer in analog
and beautifully designed just to match the classic looks of the bike would improve it
no end the front mod guard is pretty hopeless if it's wet and muddy so it needs a bigger mud guard
um and it's a lot of bleed bits on it lots of silvery bits stuck on here and there and with
the Scrambler type of bike less is more and if it didn't have all that if we stripped it
down to its Bare Essentials it would look a lot better for it um the other thing the exhaust is
a bit chunky I know you've got to get through all these horrible regs now but it does look
chunky and it's got this weird Rattle and you can hear it in the video um so that detracts
from it a little bit um and overall I think the bike's just a bit fussy and a bit chunky and when
we're at the motorcycle live show we went to the Triumph stand but we didn't manage to speak to
anyone they were too busy but there was an old classic one at all there from I think the 60s
or something and it looks so beautiful it really did and it was just less fussy it wasn't chunky it
was pretty it was artistic it was just what you need and no more and I really do think that is
the way to go with motorcycles less is more and it was just beautifully and stunningly designed
at number two is the Royal Enfield Interceptor and that is just a superb motorcycle it's a 650cc air
cooled airstrike oil essentially air cooled it's Back to Basics it's not got anything it doesn't
need it's pure motorcycle a man in harmony sounds nice it handles beautifully it looks cool it's
everything a motorbike should be and nothing more and that's why it's so good um as I said before
a lot of Manufacturers add loads of stuff if you look at old bikes they're very um basic and simple
and nowadays everything's got more and more stuff on it especially some of these Adventure bikes and
um other sort of bikes we were plastic stuff and bits bolted on and extra stuff that nobody needs
and that looks awful but this as I said is just what you need nothing more
and it's just fantastic it's an amazing bike um Power and torque is enough for the real
world it's not a Fire Blade it's not going to blow your socks off but it really is enough so
um for real riding in real conditions in the real world with traffic and all the other
stuff that goes with it it's a fantastic motorcycle so that's why it's number two
if the Interceptor had different exhaust pipes that didn't stick out so far at the back now
I know manufacturers have to jump through so many Hoops to get the bike type approved and
that's the reason why so many bikes are pig ugly these days but regardless of that so a
different set of pipes less shades of silver now if you look at the bike in our review we
pointed it out there's lots of different shades of silver paint and it looks wrong it clashes so
one type of silver paint and then polished metal that's fine and what whatever color
tank and color scheme the bike's got and that would look so much better so it's very simple
you could just do a little bit of that yourself if you had the bike because they're very good
value for money and you could customize it just how you like it without spending a fortune and
you've got a fantastic motorcycle there so the Interceptor is number two because it's brilliant
so our number one motorcycle of 2022 that we reviewed is the Harley-Davidson Low Rider s 117.
I was blown away by that motorbike it's absolutely brilliant uh the chassis geometry has been changed
a little bit tweaked so it's a bit more sporty in the corners so if you want to give
your motorcycle a little bit more stick in the corners you'll love this it's not a sports bike
it's not intended to be but it's just a little bit more quick in the corners than the average
Cruiser is the engine is phenomenal it really is a definite upgrade and it's got plenty of
power and torque it likes to be between its peak torque and its power and its peak power that's
the Rev range it's kind of designed to to ride in of course it's got plenty of low down grunt like
any Harley but you can rev this a little more than the usual Harleys and it's a great bike
the only bits I didn't like about it the mirrors were hopeless you've got this ridiculous huge
number plate sticking above the rear fender or mud guard that you can slice your leg off every
time you get on and off the bike with um so that would be better certainly in the UK with
our ridiculous number plates being lowered down we'll just get a smaller player don't tell anyone
um the other thing is I'm not keen on the sort of bronzed color on the wheels I know that's the
style of the bike and everything but that's first just nitpicking I'd rather have spoked wheels but
that's just my preference but on the whole it's a beautiful looking bike is cool it does sound
nice it goes like stink and it's fantastic so that's why it's the number one motorcycle of
2022 for Mr Darcy and the old man and as I said in the intro if there's other brands that you
don't see on the channel it's their fault not ours because we do message them and they don't reply so
um as I said I had a photography business uh I was trying to do wedding photography for a few
years and I was with this website and they sent me leaves for brides that are arranging their wedding
and they're looking for photographers and venues and stuff so I'm I emailed 350 Brides who all
wanted photographers and I was a good photographer and lovely email nice and friendly Etc and I
didn't get one single reply and the reason for that is because they're all in people's spam and
junk folders and people go to their spam or junk fold if they ever do and think oh it's full of
spam and junk delete but what you don't realize some people is that there's diamonds amongst the
spam and you do have to go through them and check so many a business has been lost to spam and junk
folders and email is just you know in the Dark Ages isn't it but most people still use it and
won't respond to Instagram and messenger and all that stuff anyway so what can you do but we do try
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list of bikes before we came to the mutually agreed conclusion of the top five and three
bikes that didn't quite make it were the Continental GT which Darcy will explain
why and the hunter from Royal Enfield which he'll also explain why because he reviewed
those bikes and the Speedmaster Gold Line which I reviewed so I'll explain that one now
um as you may know I love the Speedmaster it is a brilliant bike it looks beautiful it's stunning
it's classic Etc but for what it is I think it would be better with a less steep break on the
fork so if they came out to like 27 28 degrees that would be more in keeping with the cruiser
style it's going for perhaps slightly less fat front tire so it's not so balloon-like and it does
need about one or one and a half inches more of ground clearance because you can ground that thing
on a stone it's so low to the ground and that would just bring it up to a higher level and that
would have been definitely in the top five if it weren't for that um so I do love the Speedmaster
but as I say that it could be improved a little bit so let's hope that triumphs do and um we'll
see now a runner-up in the top five an honorable mention is the Royal Enfield Continental GT I
really enjoyed that bike stunning looking machine and it is very similar to the Interceptor but the
reason the Interceptor took the place and not the Continental is due to the riding position and it
is personal preference but I prefer the riding position of the Interceptor to the Continental GT
again very similar reasons as to why I prefer the riding position of the classic 350 over the Hunter
and that's to do with the way the bars are so on the Continental GT you've got those bars like that
whereas the bars on the Interceptor are much more straight and the foot position is much more bent
back on the Continental GT which then puts your way over the bars a bit more which can take a bit
of a toll on the wrists if you're going for a long ride so I find the Interceptor more comfortable
and other than that they are very similar but that's the only real reason that that didn't
make it into the lineup thanks very much much for watching this has been our top five bites of 2022
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