What's the New ROYAL ENFIELD like to live with?

THIS IS A BRAND-NEW MOTORCYCLE. IT'S A 65000 twin, looks pretty good and is easy to ride - and it costs E5500. On the road. With three year's warranty and three year's breakdown cover. So, is there a catch?

WHAT OLI THOUGHT

The other day I saw an ad for a CB350 twin from 1975, describing it as a middleweight. It's a mark of how our expectations have changed that Royal Enfield's new 650cc parallel twin is now counted as one of those middleweights.

I went for the Interceptor rather than the GT, as I personally think it's the better looking of the twins (other opinions are available). I'm also getting a bit stiff in the joints and increasingly wide around the waistband, so a cafe racer crouch isn't for me. First impressions being the clean lines and all the gubbins tucked away, no mass of tubes and pipes many Japanese retros suffer from. The switchgear is