This Royal Enfield 650 cruiser will be positioned above the current flagships from the company – the Interceptor 650 and Continental GT 650.
When Royal Enfield launched its new 650cc parallel twin-cylinder engine platform, it was known that it would spawn a range of motorcycles. The company currently sells the Interceptor 650 and Continental GT 650 with that 650 cc motor and it is already testing the third motorcycle on a similar platform.
A new spy video (pics you see on this page are screengrabs from that video) shows an all-new RE motorcycle with a twin-cylinder engine. It gets a new chassis and is likely to be positioned above the company’s current 650 cc line-up. In the process, it is set to become the costliest motorcycle from the Chennai based manufacturer.
From the pictures, we can clearly see the oil-cooler mounted at the front of the engine along with twin chunky exhausts. It also adorns upside down front forks. Apart from that, the bike appears to be low-set and real long with a feet-forward position and a fatter rear tyre.
We are also able to spot a twin-pod instrument cluster, with one large and another small dial, similar to the one spotted on the upcoming Meteor 350.
While this yet-to-be named bike does take design inspirations from the ‘Royal Enfield Concept KX’ shown at EICMA 2018, it also has a few similarities with the Indian Scout!
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Royal Enfield will position this bike as a premium cruiser and at an expected price tag of around Rs 3-3.5 lakh it will not have any direct competition as well.
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It looks like the motorcycle is still in the development stages. Hence expect to hear something concrete about its launch plans only by next year.
-Moin Ahmed
Source: Karthick Jay
