The loyal Royal Enfield fans might know that company is going to introduce bunch of new products with extensive foreign R&D involvement, and what you're looking at is one of such new product.
The Himalayan (Indian's knows how to spell) is visually most radical Royal Enfield motorcycle to the date. Royal Enfiled believes there's huge potential for adventure bikes in India as well as around glob.
At top of tier there's some top dogs like BMW's R1200GS and and KTM's 1290 Super Adventure with complex electronics packages but Royal Enfiled believes in man and machine philosophy and willing to keep things simple, moreover it's company's first adventure bike, so in some sense Himalayan is like prototype machine for market response.
There's no official words regarding powerplant but most likely it'll be powered by 410 cc thumper derived from Continental GT, Same with it's frame but rear sub frame seems highly modified for off-road purpose, the inputs for frame is most likely taken from Harris Performance.
The front high travel forks and sharp threaded tyre's shouts loud about it's offroad capability. It's good to see such variations regarding products in Indian market, now it'll be interesting to see if any other Indian manufacturer gonna try distinctive move like this !
