ROYAL ENFIELD SLIDE SCHOOL
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One company that's hit flat
track with full force in recent times
has been Royal Enfield. Once as
British as Earl Grey tea but now
as Indian as curry, Royal Enfield
is by far the most prestigious
motorcycling brand coming out
of the subcontinent, and they've
been bitten by the flat track bug
hard in 2020. So hard, in fact,
they've created their own AFT
team and started their dirt track
school with commercial partner
and racer, Johnny Lewis.
Lewis, the proprietor behind
the Moto Anatomy riding school
based out of Center Hill in Flori-
da, is now Royal Enfield's go-to
man for flat track. And, together
with chassis partner Harris Perfor-
mance out of Hertford in the UK,
the trio went racing in the Produc-
tion Twins category this year and
took a breakthrough victory at
the Daytona Short Track season-
closing event.
Using Royal Enfield Himalayan
motorcycles modified for flat track
duties, riders learn all the base
skills required to competently
slide a motorcycle in a controlled
way to enable fast lap times, and
so far, the schools have been a
roaring success.
"We actually launched the
Slide School in India last Novem-
ber," Lewis said. "And in August
with the delays associated with
Covid-19, we started up in the
U.S. To date, we went from Ohio
to Pennsylvania to North Carolina,
back to my place in Florida, and
now in California. We've seen
over 160 students come through
the school to date."
For the bargain price of $250,
students can rock up to one of
the Royal Enfield Slide Schools
and be presented with everything
required to learn flat track—all
riding gear, motorcycle, and of
course, Lewis himself. The rid-
ing goes for about half a day, as
Lewis admits there's an awful lot
to take in when learning to slide
a bike.
SoCal's Blackmore
Ranch in Fall.
Probably no better
place on earth.
Probably.
