VOL. 53 ISSUE 3 JANUARY 26, 2016 P29
ROYAL ENFIELD
HIMALAYAN VIDEO
BREAKS COVER
(AND FOOTPEG).
T
he Royal Enfield Himalayan, a 410cc
single-cylinder adventure bike destined
for the Indian market, has finally broken
cover in this promo video.
The video features Indian Dakar veteran
CS Santosh waxing lyrical about the new
machine, however at 1:53s, a small issue
was spotted by our eagle-eyed UK col-
leagues at Visordown.com, when Santosh
crests the same jump he'd done about 10 times
previously, only this time he breaks off the right
footpeg on landing.
How this managed to make it past the final cut
for the video, we will never know, but according
to Visordown, on Royal Enfield's YouTube page
comments section, RE says, "This testing proved
to us that if you land from a jump that's 6ft above
ground, the footpeg could break, so we made it
better and did it all over again and again before we
broke out with the #Himalayan." CN
AMA AWARDS THE BEST OF 2015
T
he AMA honored the country's best amateur racers during the
2015 AMA Championship Banquet in Columbus, Ohio. AMA
National champions were presented with their number-one plates
for the year, and the AMA also announced their Athlete of the Year
awards.
Ryan Sipes, member of the U.S. Trophy Team at the 2015 ISDE,
became the first-ever American to overall the prestigious interna-
tional event—a feat that earned him the AMA Athlete of the Year
award (from the National Championship Series ranks).
In the Grand Championship category, it was Yamaha rider Benny
Bloss who was named the 2015 AMA Athlete of the Year.
GNCC Champion Kacy Martinez was named the Female Athlete
of the Year while Jett Reynolds was awarded as the AMA Youth
Racer of the Year.
For more on the AMA Championships Banquet including informa-
tion on other award recipients, please visit www.americanmotor-
cyclist.com. CN
Sipes earned the AMA Athlete of the Year award for his ISDE efforts.
