this is the royal enfield himalayan and i've been riding it around for the last couple of
days so in this video we're going to tell you everything you need to know about it
the Himalayan is built for all roads built for no roads and that's a really good description
because it's a dual-purpose notes like it's what you would call an adventure
bike it's got a sort of perry dakar style fairing here which when you're going along
at speed does take a little bit of the wind off your face if you sort of lie
down on the tank you can get out of the wind a little bit but it's more cosmetic really
in this particular color which they called snow the bike costs four thousand three hundred ninety
nine we can get it in silver and black but that's an extra hundred pounds but we have seen one on
ebay before three nine nine nine so obviously you can get the cheaper that's brand new so it
does vary the engine is a 411 cc four-stroke single overhead cam it produces about twenty
four and a half horsepower and 32 Newton meters at all which is quite talky actually for a bike
like this but the power is very easy it comes on very gently it doesn't kick you're not an
experienced rider you'd be fine on this bike also the throttle it's got a very long travel so to get
full throttle like this but that's also a good thing if you're off road and you hit some bumps
if a little bit of throttles not going to put you into a wheelie or make the back wheel spin
there's a couple of extras that you can get for this bike including panniers which are an extra
about 530 pounds it should be very useful for touring and so heavy and you can also get a top
box go back here that's 330 of their belts and then you can get lots of different accessories
for the rack on the front as well the front wheels are 21 inch and you've got the disc
brakes with ABS and at the back you've got a 17 inch rear wheel but I must say these tires that
this is Scott what are they they're the Avon AV 54 they're not really very good road there
for the road type I'd probably recommend getting trials or enduro tires for these
upfront you've got the 41 millimeter Forks with about 8 inches of travel which is adequate for
the trail riding and at the back you've got 7 inches of travel and you've got the single
spring mono shock suspension and when you're riding you don't really notice the suspension
so you don't notice it that's a good thing you don't know it's not too hard it's not
too soft it just goes along and you forget about it and it does everything for you it's
got a proper petrol tank on it bare metal 15 liters it's quite a nice shape too as
well the fenders are quite a nice shape that they are plastic as you can hear from that I
think the front one up here is probably more for looks there's anything because
then you've got this one underneath but if it is wet you will get your legs soaked
the seat comes down into a sort of curve here and you've got the passenger seat at the back but the
problem with this and it's the same on all these styles of adventure bikes is that it sets you in
one position so when you're off-road sometimes you want to be back when you're going downhill
over some bumps or accelerating and when you're cornering you want to be right over the tank so
with this bike you're setting one position so that really means that it's a gentle trail bike
you've got to be the sort of person that just wants to go out for a nice ride and not worry
about performance riding but it's not aimed at that sort of rider anyway the banks have
got kind of a two-in-one design they've got this rubber thing that if you unscrew it you
can actually take that off and have more of a kind of a grippy peg from off road riding
so that's quite useful you've actually got two stands on this part you've got
the normal source tide stand and then you've got a centre stand here so you've got that
option the seat height is 31 and a half inches on this which is quite a nice height especially
if you're not that tall and you've got eight and three-quarter inches of ground clearance so it's
pretty good for off-road trail-riding with lots of obstacle clearance height
the brakes are pretty powerful on this you can't stop quite quickly and I believe you
can get this spike on an a2 license I don't think you have to restrict it because it's
24 volt and I think it's under the ridiculous power-to-weight ratio that they suggest so I
think it is fine so it's 411 CC it's a long-stroke engine it's got electronic
ignition so there's no carburetor and it's air-cooled so there's no radiators but you
have got an oil cooler at the front just over here we've got a 5-speed gearbox on this bike
and the kids are actually very very smooth there's no clunkiness like you get from a Harley
okay I really like the retro styling on this it's sort of like a trail bike from the 1980s
whereas a lot of the alternative makes you could buy I've got very pointy plastics and
they're sort of more space-age looking and I'm not so keen on that style so I think the
styling wise this is good and the build quality is really good it's very solid it's a well-made
bike the power of this is very manageable so as I said if you wanted to go out just for a
gentle ride just enjoy yourself it's a bike for people that just want to ride normally
it's not a mental bike that you're going to go crazy on if you wanted to go crazy get a proper
racing enduro but it's nothing to do with that this is a nice everyday trail bike you can ride
to work in the week and go off for a country ride at the weekend the design was basically
to sort of ride the Himalayan mountain passes and the tracks and for that it works perfectly
and over here in England the country lanes the byways the Green Lanes it's the perfect
bike as long as you don't expect to go too fast this bike will get up to speed nicely
it feels quite stable take the wind off your face if you want to but it's a perfectly nice
easy bike to ride at 70 miles an hour but I wouldn't say I'd want to ride
from the South of England to Scotland on it so it's not designed for long journeys like
that but if you wanted to combine some road work go to a nice trail perfect
size-wise I'm 6 foot 3 it feels ok to write like I said about the seat it does push you forward
a little bit so you are in a fixed position how do you think I look it doesn't look too big it's
about yeah yeah it doesn't know this is much bigger than I thought it would be when it came
I thought I was actually quite a big buck we're not six foot one and it doesn't feel too small so
it feels about right it's quite low seat position yeah yeah this isn't it what did you think it was
like to write um it's quite easy to ride it's not a snappy at all so it's not gonna throw you off
so who would buy a bike like this I think if you want a trail bike and you want to do
some Day Afternoon going down some green lanes in the countryside exploring it's
a perfect bike it would also be a really good bike for commuting especially if you
have the panniers at the back you could be going to work getting changed bring
your stuff with you or even be a courier I mean it's a fantastic bike for that
so our verdict of the Royal Enfield Himalayan we really like it's a lovely bike if you want
a decent trail bike that will go on the road go on the trail it's the perfect bike to get
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