you join me for yet another video on the Royal Enfield Interceptor 650 and in this video
I'm going to give you my perspective from a 20 year old a younger person looking at
this bike which is really more of a classically styled motorbike and give you my true opinion
wow it's truly very nice and warm so I've had to take my jumper off um if you watch
the channel on a regular basis you'll know that me and the old man are huge fans of Royal
Enfield and in particular the Interceptor is my favorite I think it's his as well or
either that or the classic um and coming from a perspective of someone who is 20 years old
myself this is the kind of bike I would go and buy as a first bike I know I didn't um
but for six and a half Grand the amount of bite you get for your money the amount of
Joy it gives you the noise it makes the beautiful loads of character and the amount of people
who stop and look at it and go you know what's that um it's incredible the bang for your
buck is almost unbeatable um and I really do struggle to find any other bikes that match
this for bang for your buck and I think as someone who's perhaps got an A2 license with
this being 47 horsepower you can go and ride it at 19 years old so it is a fantastic place
to start
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any age whether you're starting out riding later on in life maybe you're 45 or maybe
you're 65 regardless of your age I think this spike is a perfect starter you know because
it's inexpensive if you do decide that motorcycling isn't for you you've not gone and spent a
fortune and you'll quite easily sell it and I don't think you'll lose a hell of a lot
of money on it really they're very easy to ride nice and stable at Motorway speeds lovely
handling in the corners it's a reasonably tall bike compared to you know Cruisers and
things like that and you can lean down a fair amount enough really in the real world so
yeah lovely in the corners suspension's very forgiving soaks up the bumps very well so
you're not gonna find yourself going over a bump and it's shooting you off which is
obviously really good makes it a bit safer stopping power could be a little bit better
but it's not awful and for the sorts of speeds you'll be doing as I always say it's good
enough all right [Music] Royal enfields are very easily customizable there's lots of aftermarket
parts available so you can really make this bike your own and put your own twist on it
which is always a good thing you don't want to look the same as every other person on
the road um and if you're even looking at one of these as a second bike it'd be ideal
for that something to be a commuter in the city whether it's in the countryside enjoying
the lanes this really is a perfect all-rounder um perhaps even if you wanted to do a bit
of Green Lane and you could put some knobbly tires on it and sort the suspension out make
it a little bit softer um you could do that or you could buy a Himalayan um but yeah it
really is a very good bike for all round purposes so if you want one bike that does everything
then this is a very good choice if you want it as a second bike if you're a little run
around it's a great bike for that as well so really you can't go wrong and I would probably
say if you were starting out and getting a first bike this bike because it's got pretty
good amount of oomph you're not going to find yourself getting a bit bored of it after a
short amount of time whereas you might with one of the smaller Royal enfields find that
you want a little bit more power which this delivers and even if you do get fed up with
this and you think you want more you could then bore out the cylinders and make it a
little bit more powerful but they make it probably 850 CC um or you could go and buy
a Triumph Bonneville after this but this would certainly set you on the road nicely and prepare
you for that
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if you own one of these motorbikes let me know in the comments section down below how
old you are it'd be interesting to know the sort of primary age range for these sorts
of bikes now being the younger person myself this is the sort of thing I'm into these triumphs
Harleys um you know I like my Cruisers I like my Classics my modern Classics but most people
my age are more interested in you know sports bikes nakeds Superbikes which don't interest
me at all don't get me wrong if I hear a Ducati going past I certainly love the sound of it
but I wouldn't want to ride one and I'm much more interested in bikes like these so it'd
be interesting to know how many other people my age think the same or whether it's mainly
slightly older people or maybe late 20s 30s 40s 50s who knows who ride these primarily
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in two weeks time I will be 21 years old and what that means is because I did my A2 license
at 19 I can then do the same test again on a slightly more powerful motorbike and that
will around allow me to ride bikes with more power than 47 horsepower um now obviously
the government believed that after two years of riding on the road and getting thousands
of miles under your belt that you would of course forget altogether how to ride a motorbike
and it would be like starting from fresh so you'll need another five lessons and to Fork
out a thousand pounds um to learn how to ride a motorbike again because we're all so forgetful
that after two years we just forget we don't know I mean I've forgotten what that that
lever does which one's the break I've I don't know um but yeah I'll have to be doing that
again which I will be doing because obviously I want to ride bigger bikes and it'll allow
me to ride all sorts of bikes on the channel so I will be biting the bullet and doing it
but as you can tell I'm rather bitter about having to do the test twice and Fork out a
load more of my money but what can we do
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now I've come to the beautiful ibrook Reservoir today to film this Reservoir has got quite
interesting history it was created between 1937 and 1940 and it was created primarily
for the water supply to the Corby steel works but in 1943 it was actually used for practice
for the Dam Busters raids in World War II with special bouncing bombs which were designed
to destroy German dams during the war so this was actually where they practiced for doing
that so quite an incredible bit of history but a beautiful location which is now used
primarily as a fishing lake and a nice place to stop and just take it all in and go for
a little walk it's lovely and today is meant to be cloudy 15 degrees and the sun's out
it's absolutely it gorgeous feels about 20 degrees so Met Office wrong again [Music]
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