today we're reviewing the Benelli Imperial 400 I'm sorry about any wind noise in this video
it's extremely windy in the UK at the moment bit of that sort of storm season it's got a 370 3.5 CC
air-cooled single cylinder four-stroke engine the miles per gallon figures on this bike are
quite impressive it does 88 miles per gallon so that's going to save you a lot of petrol
first impressions it's very easy to ride and very nice to ride it's extremely nimble
because the forks quite steep so turning and changing direction is effortless and very easy
it's got a five-speed gearbox and I've just put my foot in the foot peg and it
does feel a little bit it's sort of wobbly whatever else cause it's loose or whether
it's not very strong know about that gear lever yeah very nicely together by what I
like about the styling is it's very retro it's minimalistic it's actually very pretty I like
the look of the engine it's got a lovely shape nothing's too chunky on it it's all very very
sort of nicely curved black and chrome so it's a good-looking bike actually this is
basically a modern interpretation of a classic 1950s Fanelli so you've got the
benefits of a modern bike light electronic start electronic fuel injection disc brakes and so on
it's a very minimalistic looking bike and it's kind of style and function combined where you're
not getting lots of plastic rubbish that you get on most modern bikes it's kind of all just
there because it needs to be there but they've started it well as well you've got the analog
dials on this which I like I've never been a big fan of digital gauges and when you're
riding it's very easy to see it's rubbery stuff on the tank which is for if you want
to grip it with your knees you know going to slide about on the tank or scratch that
it all looks really good quality as well it's hard to say because over time you know living
with the bike you would know how strong the metals are and how good they are whether a
rust but from what I can see it looks absolutely lovely it's got a 12 litre fuel tank so obviously
with that 88 miles per gallon than it has it's probably gonna give you a decent amount of range
one thing you have on here is a twin seat now and the back seat does actually come off if you
wanted to but personally I would leave it because it's quite nice because you can actually shift
the weight and you can get down and you can move about on the bike which I was like I've never been
a fan of the sort of scoops fixed seats so this is good you're just nice it's got a sprung seat
at 60 miles an hour the bikes revving at about 5,000 ish rpm 70 you're going to be six hours and
also and you're getting towards the redline then so it's not really a motorway bike so I wouldn't
want to sustain 70 miles an hour on a motorway for very long but you could of course do that this is
much more of a bike for sort of slow rise enjoying where you're riding enjoying being on a nice bike
it's not about speed it's not being a Carl Fogarty kind of bike it's a classic gentleman's bike would
you say this bike will appeal to youngsters that yourself I mean I like it if you're a young person
watching this anything I I like this bike let us know in the comments and then tell me what why
for passenger riding it's quite comfortable the grab rails are a little low you've got
a stoop forward so maybe they're not so much for the passenger there is a little
rail behind you or you just hug the person in front if you're friendly enough the exhaust
note is actually not too bad considering it's got such a huge it doesn't sound pretty good
threaten a few fingers down because I won't be to remember anything it's got twenty point
four horsepower five and a half thousand rpm and twenty eight Newton meters of torque at three and
a half thousand rpm but what that means riding is that it's not a highly powered bike twenty-eight
Newton meters of torque in the real world means on a steep hill you might have to change down a gear
or two but for overtaking it's got plenty of power it's a easy bike to ride it's not a dangerously
powerful bike to ride it's a good bike if you just want to ride along and enjoy the countryside enjoy
where you are but it's not a racing button no one says it is and no one expects it to be because
it's a classic bike it's a I would have thought it would be a good bike just for a Sunday afternoon
right before riding it but actually this is a bike you could ride every day you could commute to work
on it go out on a weekend go to a classic show it's the sort of bite you could use for everything
riding along instantly the throttle that responds straight away there's no lag but
it's a smooth power delivery and it's not snappy so it's a good gentle ride but enough to have
been a fun you've got a centre stand and a side stand on this so that's quite useful the seat
height is 30 and 3/4 inches off the ground so 3 my feet on the ground my legs bent so
it's not a short bike I mean it feels quite tall when you're riding it but I would say
be fine anything from 5 foot 6 to 5 foot 10 would probably be the ideal height range but
feels fine to ride at 6 were 3 the gear change is buttery smooth on this it goes to the gears
very easily I have to bear in mind it's a brand new bug has only done 10 miles so I'm not going
to thrash it and treat it respectfully and up to 60 miles an hour you're just about 5,000
rpm so at 70 you'll be pushing it to the redline of 6,000 where the red line starts
the front suspensions got four and a quarter inches of travel and the rear two and a half and
on the road and the normal roads with the pom-poms and a few bumps that is enough to soak them up
let us know in the comments below what you think of this bike tell us if you like if
you don't like it good or bad we personally love it I think this is a nice bike very
impressed with it I would be happy with this bike so yeah we want to know what you think
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