This from an email I just received:
“Take a look at Royal Enfield. They’re (relatively) affordable as far as motorcycles go [$5k], can achieve top speeds of about 75mph (though they are a bit whiny at that speed), and have a published fuel economy of 70mpg. I rode one about 8 years ago and found it to be a bit clunky compared to modern bikes, but it certainly had a little charm the modern bikes lack. Enfield offers sidecars to match their bikes. And the military model comes with hard panniers.”
Cool!
I note that their sites says they have a new model, the Electra, and also a new kind of engine, “AVL with Lean Burn”—raising the speed to truly highway worthy and the economy to 75mpg.
Another neat thing is that this is an Indian motorcycle, that is, from India, a country that specializes in smaller, fuel-efficient motos.
Here’s a link to another site of theirs: www.royalenfield.com
https://www.enfieldmotorcycles.com/
