Australian Road Rider

THE BULLET IS BACK!

The Royal Enfield Bullet is an extremely honest motorcycle. It's not very fast, but it is smooth and nice to ride. It's a very pleasant machine you can use as an imitation vintage bike, because a lot of people will look at it thinking it's a vintage bike, or you could use it as a bike to commute on, to just get around town on, to enjoy riding with your friends, and get a little bit of a buzz out of a single-cylinder, air-cooled, very simple machine that is also modern enough to carry ABS brakes, fuel injection, and a three-year warranty with roadside assistance.

The engine is built on the same platform we've seen in the previous generations of Royal Enfield 350cc singles — the Meteor, the Hunter and the Classic. The Bullet, though, is the most famous name of all, having started construction in 1934.

The history of the Bullet goes back a long,

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