this is the royal enfield classic 350 and it's a bike i've wanted to review
since it first came out and we're very lucky to be one of the first in the uk to get the
official bike of course there's reviews of this bike on the internet which you've probably seen
from different countries but not so many in the uk so now let's find out what this bike is like
the bike comes in many different colors some really lovely colors actually this one starts
at 4279 pounds and some of the colors are a little more expensive at 4 439 pounds personally
i like the red with the chrome one that looks beautiful so go on to royal enfield's website
and you can look through all the different colors and the prices so what you really want to know is
what this bike is like to ride and i can tell you it's absolutely fantastic it has so much character
this 350cc airstroke oil cooled engine quilt is brilliant i mean it is absolutely amazing it's
got a lot of character it makes a lovely sound uh on the deceleration it sort of pops and burbles
accelerating it sounds magnificent and it really is great with only 20.2 horsepower and 27 newton
meters of torque you wouldn't think it has very much oomph but it's got plenty in the real world
and this bike is an absolute hoot to ride if you're just exploring the countryside or commuting
in the towns the cities wherever you're going like that it's wonderful because it's very maneuverable
but not at all twitchy so the handling the geometry of this bike
is spot on it really is absolutely fantastic i'll go into that a bit more later
but as a bike to just ride around it is fantastic i can tell you and i'm so impressed with it
it's just one of the best bikes i've ever ridden the gear change is very positive
very good you've got five gears on this the clutch has a perfect feel to it you've got a cable clutch
and a cable throttle and you get a direct contact with the bike which i really like so there's no
electronic gizmos and stuff on this it's a very simple bike you don't have to have modes uh
your mode is your throttle hand and that is just what you need and i've been over some difficult
terrain with sort of slippery gravel in the roads and wet leaves and stuff and the bike handles it
all perfectly it's so well designed i love the handling on this it really is brilliant and
whether you're riding in the city the countryside weaving in and out of traffic
going out for a joyride just for the sheer fun of it this bike will just lap it up and
not many bikes i would want to do hundreds of miles on and this isn't built for that but because
it's such a nice bike i'd be happy to strap a few things on the back and go off 300 mile ride
say going camping somewhere and take your time enjoy the ride it will do 70 miles an hour but
you probably want to cruise along at 60 but when you get there you're on a royal enfield classic
and you would enjoy every minute of exploring where you've
chosen to go and i can't think of another bike or many other bikes that i'd want to do that one
now where i've been riding around some quite mucky roads today and i haven't cleaned the
bike since i came back because i thought it's quite important to see what you end up with after
a dirty ride and this bike's actually quite clean these mud guards come all the way around and
they're metal and there's only a little bit of mud from there downwards and the engine the frame the
exhausts the tank are all clean and i'm clean i'm not covered in mud and that's important because if
you're riding a bike in the real world you don't want to be caked in mud and have two hours worth
of cleaning trying to get all the muck out of the cylinders and what have you or the radiator and um
on the triumph bonnevilles that's very much the case the little mud guard at the front just puts
all the muck onto the bike and they are difficult to clean and on the back here you've just got a
little bit of mud on the chain guard but most of it's been caught by the mud guards or the fenders
and they're very effective indeed just looking at the bike style wise you've got these lovely
fork covers which i like all metal solid nice solid mud guard and beautiful chrome wheels and
spokes love spokes single disc brake stopping power is perfectly good um got a lovely chrome
exhaust piece user exhaust this this bike's got quite a few accessories on and see if
you can spot them um the screen being one of them and this guard down here being another
and there's a few others this rack on the back uh again that's an accessory but it's the best
designed rack on a motorcycle i've ever seen because you've got this little area here and
with my tripod i could slot one leg into there and secure it on there with a bungee so if you've got
a bit of luggage and a few difficult things to carry it will go on there no problem whatsoever
this engine is very beautiful to look at as well as being very good as an engine and the whole bike
is still very classic even though it's brand new and of course without the seat and the thing here
and the screen and the accessories it looks more minimalistic and in my opinion looks better um
this guard underneath here uh although it serves a very good practical purpose it would look better
in black because you don't really want to see it it's it's not the most beautiful thing but um
you've also got a center stand which is great to have so if you're oiling your chain or washing
the bike you can spin the wheel no problem at all and you've got a nice side stand as well
and both stands work very well indeed now me being six foot two how do you think i look on the bike
um riding it it feels fine no problem whatsoever it's very comfortable i like the riding position
i probably look big on it but then you've got to say to yourself does that matter
my feet are flat on the floor of course if i was
say from five foot five to five foot ten like most bikes i'd be the perfect height for it
but at six foot two i feel it's perfectly all right and i should put it on the side stand
um i've got a bit of an issue with sort of size of bikes so kind of i love big bikes
but sometimes the big heavy harleys and things are so cumbersome uh at slow speeds or uh maneuvering
so a bike like this you don't have that problem at all because it's very maneuverable
and uh very confidence inspiring the suspension is really good um these bikes get tested
and uh in the process of uh pre-production um ridden all over the himalayas and all sorts of
places like that so they're very good on bumpy roads and the farm track leading down to this
property here um is very bumpy and unmade in most places and this bike just handles it with
no problem whatsoever and uh i felt i could go along quite fast quite confidently uh there's dog
she likes to get in the shot this dog very confident now i had a honda uh crf250rx a
little while back which i bought for sort of green landing around here
but i told it after a while because i wasn't enjoying it and one of the main reasons why i
wasn't enjoying it was because the engine was so peaky it produced all its power way high up the
rev range like 10 000 11 000 rpm something crazy like that and when you're trail riding you just
want to burble along and if it had this engine in it it'd be the best trail bike on the planet so
this bike itself as it is with road tires handled the slippery bumpy stuff no problem whatsoever
and uh with sort of trials tyres or something like that on it you'd find you can go anywhere
now just running through the things you have here you've got a nice little switch on the side here
the starter switch which is nice it's a little dial and you've got a hazard light that's it on
the other side you've got your lights on a rotary dial as well indicators which don't self-cancel
be careful make sure you cancel them a hooter and a little button on the front which scrolls through
a few things on the menu here you've got a lovely analog speedometer i'm a massive fan of analog
i don't like digital dials or tft screens and all that computery stuff you don't want
to spend time looking at what looks like a phone on your motorbike uh when you get home
and look at your phone you don't look it on a motorbike so um it's nice to have a beautiful
outlook on a motorcycle which is what i love about my r18 it's art in the view ahead
and this is the same you've got beautiful chrome handlebars and little chrome
clamp there you've got a nice chrome surround to the key fob and this little uh thing on the right
here uh you can have the the um satin everything on there if you want to uh as an accessory and um
it's just looks beautiful looking out on the bike so you do feel like you're on a nice bike
when you're riding it not just being looked at as you go by now it's interesting because
at the moment we've got a garage full of bikes they've all come at once there's three hondas
there's the rebel 1100 there's the super cub 125 and cross adventure or xadv as most people call
it it's actually a cross adventure and this and a triumph ec1 street twin and of all the bikes
that i would say which one should i take out and enjoy the most is this one by far this is
absolutely wonderful a lot of bikes get refined so much that they become boring and like i said about
the art you're looking out it looks beautiful a lot of bikes they're functional but not pretty
some bikes are too powerful and that i'm not particularly a speed freak
some people are of course and i understand if you want a 200 uh brake horsepower superbike and want
to go completely crazy i can understand the thrill of that but in the real world i think most of us
if we're honest with ourselves would prefer to just have a nice bike that is confidence
inspiring looks nice sounds nice goes nicely does everything you want it to do without trying to rip
your neck off and with a bike like this you're not on death's door all the time you can just enjoy
the ride and enjoy the bike you're riding on and i can't tell you how good it is um if anyone
comments this is an advert for oil enfield you're being paid for this i'm certainly not
we don't get paid to do reviews uh we give our honest opinions about the bikes that we ride
and my honest opinion about this bike is that it's one of the best bikes i've ever ridden like i said
earlier and um you know you want me to be honest and i am being honest so if you're thinking of a
bike as your first bike uh as an all-time bike if you want a smaller bike if you're downsizing
whatever your reason i would recommend this bike extremely highly as i would the royal
enfield interceptor which also is one of the best bikes i've ever ridden so royal enfield
are producing some of the best bikes in the world in my opinion and the price is on the lower end of
the scale so they're not expensive so what you're getting for your money is absolutely a bargain
i do like the key that comes with the royal enfield you've got this nice little leather
key fob there on the left of the bike you've got a keyhole which opens up a
cover and there's a plastic thing inside where you put your manual and you take that off and
it reveals the air intake for the air filter and on the other side you've got another compartment
got your electrics and a manual a little tool kit and uh oh hang on a minute
what's this pair of pants so uh yeah it's got up here but there's something written inside here
tmf so if your initials are tmf you've left these in the bike uh so there's no storage compartments
as such but you do have the rack as an accessory so as i said before this is a brilliant rack so
if you've got stuff to take i'd recommend one of those if you're like me and you think that the
quest for speed and power has just gone too far and i do think it has it's nice to know that there
are bikes like this around that are extremely engaging great fun brilliant bikes but are not
super powerful and dangerous and you can have just as much fun on this if if not more i think
and when you do want to thrash a bike that's less powerful you really can get 10 tenths out of it
and it really does challenge your riding skills in a good way and that's brilliant so they're fun
at speed and they're fun when you're just burbling around and the royal enfield classic 350
i think is one of the best bikes on the planet and value for money so if you're
considering one you're pondering over it you think it's not going to be powerful enough
it's perfectly fine trust me i've been riding bikes since i was seven years of age
and this is definitely one of the best bikes i've ever ridden you have a 13 liter fuel tank
and this bike will do miles per gallon so it's very fuel efficient which is great especially at
the moment when petrol is ridiculously expensive so get one of these commute better than being on
the train on the bus and so much more fun you're free if you've just started out in the eu or
great britain and you've just passed your a2 licence now we often say that this bike is
a2 compatible out of the box if you're in america you don't have to worry about that because in the
eu and uk it's a bit in any state so we have to have these rules but it's basically a test that
restricts you to a 47 horsepower or under bike so this falls within that and it's a great choice
of course if you have a pillion i'll demonstrate being a pillion i've got the foot pegs the grab
rails or you can grab the person in front that's actually very comfortable it's a nice seat as is
the front seat which is a sprung seat and it's a certainly a comfortable bike so for longer rides
uh you don't get saddle saw and it is very nice so let me know in the comments what you think
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