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ROYAL ENFIELD HIMALAYAN

OKAY, SO THERE SEEMS to be some conjecture about Royal Enfield’s Himalayan and whether it’s a proper adventure bike that can handle some rough stuff, so I decided to take it on a route that can throw in some rather hardcore sections and see whether we both came out the other side in one piece (each)! Throw in the masses of rain we’ve had over the last few months and the route in the Blue Mountains National Park was a lot more difficult than I could have planned for. In fact, many sections were so soaked the mud was ready to swallow both of us!

The latest iteration of the Himalayan sees it fitted with a Euro 5 compliant

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