QUICKSPIN I Royal Enfield Super Meteor 650
P90
U.S. pricing is pending, but
some quick currency conversions
seem to place it around $7000 to
$7500, but that could also be way
off base. We expect to know more
closer to summer.
I was assigned a Super Meteor
650 Tourer and thumbed the
starter. The P-twin sprang to life
and EPA-muffled power pulses
politely departed the twin low-
slung chrome mufflers. The Super
Meteor bars have just a bit of a
buckhorn bend to them, and when
I went to tap the shifter into first,
my TCX boot met nothing but air
and landed in the dirt. These for
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ward controls were going to take
a minute to
get used to.
From the hotel parking lot, my
group rolled onto a main road
leading out of Jaisalmer. Tem
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peratures hung in the low 40s; I
thankfully had
brought my winter
gloves along. It was a Sunday
morning and traffic was light, but
still highly entertaining. Inner city
traffic is made up of a menagerie
of vehicles and roadway users, all
in motion all at once. You ride on
the left side of the road…usually.
Armadas of small 110 and
125cc motorbikes, oddly quiet,
softly buzz by carrying from
one to six people and cargo.
Most women, always colorfully
dressed in saree, ride side-saddle
unless at the controls, which is
rare. Roads can go from smooth
pavement to muddied, rutted pas
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sages in a moment. Pedestrians,
bicyclists,
animals (usually cows
but also sheep and goats), people
