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A giant leap for mankind? Or just another new Bullet? Rowena Hoseason takes a quick spin on the latest Royal Enfield to go on sale in the UK… Royal Enfield have been talking about their lean-burn engine since the late 1990s. It’s been on the drawing board for a while, the 350cc version has been in production since 1999 and…

What happens when you combine classic motorcycle wiring and feminine intuition? Emm lights the blue touch paper and we should all stand well back… Royal Enfield motorcycles bear the slogan ‘Made like a Gun’. Olive, as an example of a Royal Enfield 500 Bullet, is not so much a motorbike ‘made like a battle-ready, empire building armament’. She’s more of…

You need to possess a certain sort of Something to really enjoy owning and riding a classic bike. Does Steve The Toast have that Something? He’s probably going to self-destruct in the attempt to find out… Classic British grey skies greeted me when I squinted out the window on the Sunday morning. This seemed most fitting, really, as I was…

After reading various roadtests, Aged P actually bought one. He shares his first impressions of the Enfield Sixty-5 and gives some Real Classic Motorcycle advice to other prospective returning riders… Bear in mind that, after many years away from bikes and biking, I regard myself now as a ‘returning novice’, and I never was much good on technical matters. However,…

We feel that everyone should be told how Emm’s adventures with her Royal Enfield are progressing (even though we run the risk of becoming RealBullet.co.uk). This time, she gets in a bit of a flap… Despite rabid heckling from the gallery for ‘Royal Enfield Bullet – the First Service’ and ‘Bullet 500cc – The Next 500 Miles’ to appear here,…

Steve Wilson didn’t really need to ride another Enfield straight away, but we wanted to do the ‘out standing in his field’ joke. So he just had to go a-trialling-oh… If you want to go trail riding in proper classic style, then you need to get something relatively reliable, affordable and fuss-free, and do it now, before we’re all legislated…