Royal Enfield Himalayan FI

What's Good:

Royal Enfield offers an affordable adventure tourer bike, called Himalayan. It looks as retro adventure, and thoroughly rugged. The motorcycles comes with a huge touring features that make your tour adventure and memorable. The Himalayan offers more comfortable riding on every kind of terrains as it is fitted with stepped seats and high mounted handlebar. It also gives an excellent performance and dynamic balancing power. We have mentioned its few pro points below:

• Adventure and Tourer Combo Package
• Excellent Ground Clearance
• Comfortable Ride Quality
• Adjustable Windscreen

What's Bad:

Well now, talking about its cons, Royal Enfield Himalayan comes with powerful features, but it is built some lack of features. It doesn't give enough power as that was expected. Let's have a look on its cons:

• Polarising looks
• Not powerful enough
• No tubeless tyres, ABS
• lack of a 6th gear
• No projector headlight

Power and Mileage:

The Royal Enfield Himalayan is loaded with advanced powerplant that rewards you by its excellent power out and dynamic riding performance. The bike gets power from a single cylinder, air-cooled, 411cc motor that produces 24.5 BHP and 32 Nm of torque. The firm claims that the bike gives a decent mileage of 40 kmpl. Himalayan has more efficient motor than the existing series. The engine is mated to a five speed transmission. The power and mileage features are mentioned below:

• 411cc Displacement
• Bharat Stage IV (BS4)
• 24.5 BHP of Power
• 32 NM of Torque
• Rugged and powerful Engine
• Decent mileage of 40 KMPL

Handling and Riding:

The Royal Enfield Himalayan offers dynamic and rigid handling power on every road conditions as its comes with high mounted handlebar and forward set foot-pegs. The bike is wrapped around the modified single tube chassis that allows for better balance and stability riding. The rider feels a confidence riding as it gets 21 inch front and 17 inch rear tyres.

Safety:

Royal Enfield that is known as the premium world class two wheeler manufacturer, the firm doesn't compromise with the safety of their customers. Therefore, the company loads highly safety features such as brakes and suspensions in their every products. The braking duties are managed by double disc brakes with 300mm 2-piston floating caliper disc at the front side and a smaller 240mm single piton floating caliper disc at the rear end. The front disc brake quite progressive and more convenient on the hilly road. The rider feels alive when he rides on the dirt and off-road terrain as the motorcycles is fitted with telescopic suspensions at the front angle and monoshock fork at the rear side.

Maintenance Issues:

The maintenance term is contrary to Royal Enfield Himalayan. There are few requirements of it that you should have to maintain as oil change after 10,000 km intervals and the spark plug change after 25,000 km intervals. Therefore, it is again ready to give excellent performance on the roads.

Verdict:

The Royal Enfield Himalayan is the first adventure tourer bike from the firm that captures a lot of eye balls of the viewer. If you are looking out for a good touring bike option then Himalayan is the better option for you as the bike comes with new engine and modified chassis and great features.