The Indian bod in the video above, returned about 18.5 miles per litre. The standard rule-of-thumb for most bikes is 10 miles per litre. Unsurprisingly, like its older sister model, it’s pretty frugal.
2024 Himalayan 450
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That's bang on what our G310GS does and a little less than my F650 Dakar.
But it's a Honda..
It is, and that alone is a good reason to buy the Royal Enfield.
Ours has improved with age, there seems to little interest in them these days.I test rode a 310. It was horrible.
Another review with no real con cons! (Watch the vid!)
No con cons…. I like the Indian reviews and ‘How to do it’ videos. Excellent in this video is the cow bells at about 53:00. Good conclusion at the end….. save your cash….. and buy an Enfield….. “All that shit is gone. It bloody well works for me”.
Like its older sister, it seems to be a very good motorcycle. It’s a Tiger 1200 slaaaaaaaayer…..
Like its older sister, it seems to be a very good motorcycle. It’s a Tiger 1200 slaaaaaaaayer…..
I’m still waiting to see how bods mount a standalone GPS unit and / or phone. I guess the bar clamps, is one option, but out of direct line of sight. I’m also waiting to see how (or even if) the integrated GPS display in the instruments binnacle will run bespoke GPS routes.
I suspect it will be much the same as the previous model.
GPS mount
It would appear that the onboard navigation will only route via google maps, you can draw a route on google maps and use that but there's no direct gpx option.
Listening to Indians speaking English is like going back in time by 70 years or so. The same applies (maybe to a lesser extent) to reading papers such as The Times of India or The Hindu - excellent grammatical English as it used to be spoken/written.
I mean, when was the last time you heard anything being described as "top notch"?
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I checked the Indian prices for the new bike today. 2 lakh 69 000 rupees for the basic model. That's a gnat's bollock over £2.5k, if I did my sums right! The OTR price for the most expensive model works out at £3100!
10 years wages then.
Yeah, fair comment for vast numbers of Indians no doubt but there are tens of thousands with well paid, salaried jobs. NB monthly salaries in the table linked here!
"Average Salary By State In India (2023) – Forbes Advisor INDIA" https://www.forbes.com/advisor/in/b...verage salary in India,75,000 to INR 3,10,419.
I'm pretty sure Indian financial institutions will offer the never never too!
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Buy one in India and ride it home.
The extremes of wealth are obvious for all to see in India but the RE Bullet was the bike to have back in 2018 although the place was overrun with 125s (which looked Chinese Hondas to me but may have been locally made). I doubt the 400 Himalayan would have taken over from the Bullet but the 450 may be the one - although, there’s always the 650 models.
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Nice idea in principle but unless you can be certain that 'sold in India' is also fully compliant with U. K. /EU requirements, certificate of compliance, etc. one would be left storing said machine for lack of registration/insurance and buyers, here in U. K.
(The whole international automotive market is riddled with subtle equipment differences that I suspect are in effect, designed by manufacturers even at higher input costs, to protect the higher prices enjoyed by overseas distributors.)
Just after 9/11, a friend (former colleague) flew to Nepal and bought a Royal Enfield, well before the company had moved itself to producing the pretty good bikes of today. His plan was to ride it back to the UK. He got well into northern Iran, when he gave up.
The bike was then flown in to Manston and brought into the country on a temporary import licence. He rode it around for well over a year on his Nepalese plates, insured by Axa on its frame number. Eventually, HMG got tired of his clear intention not to re-export it and demanded that it either leave the UK or he import it properly, paying some astronomical duty.
After lots of wrangling with HMG he did import it, getting a type approval certificate from one of the very few government approved test centres. He then sold it to a dealership, who seemed to trade out of some caravan, I think it was.
During its year or so in the UK, there were several encounters with the police over the plates (Nepalese plates are squiggles) but they all came to nothing when he produced his Axa insurance certificate, matching the frame number. There was also several hilarious conversations with HMG, not least over the Nepalese ‘log book’ and import duty. Happy days.
PS The same fellow has a wife from Kazakhstan, who he married in the UK, having been refused permission by HMG. The Church of England, overruled HMG, much to HMG’s anger….. but that’s another story. Happy days, again.
PPS The chap also bought my SP2 Honda, with its ‘moody’ Harris racing exhausts.
The bike was then flown in to Manston and brought into the country on a temporary import licence. He rode it around for well over a year on his Nepalese plates, insured by Axa on its frame number. Eventually, HMG got tired of his clear intention not to re-export it and demanded that it either leave the UK or he import it properly, paying some astronomical duty.
After lots of wrangling with HMG he did import it, getting a type approval certificate from one of the very few government approved test centres. He then sold it to a dealership, who seemed to trade out of some caravan, I think it was.
During its year or so in the UK, there were several encounters with the police over the plates (Nepalese plates are squiggles) but they all came to nothing when he produced his Axa insurance certificate, matching the frame number. There was also several hilarious conversations with HMG, not least over the Nepalese ‘log book’ and import duty. Happy days.
PS The same fellow has a wife from Kazakhstan, who he married in the UK, having been refused permission by HMG. The Church of England, overruled HMG, much to HMG’s anger….. but that’s another story. Happy days, again.
PPS The chap also bought my SP2 Honda, with its ‘moody’ Harris racing exhausts.
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I visited Fort George last Spring, for the first time. The Padre of the Royal regiment of Scotland chatted to us when he spotted our bike gear. We'd spotted his 1200 Tiger parked amidst all the Mercedes and BMs and it had Maltese plates. "Don't you get grief from the Polis?" "No. Only been stopped a couple of times and I just show my ID." He also had God backing him up of course!
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