I really liked the Interceptor 650 (INT650) when I went on the international launch (see Sideburn 35). I chased former road race champion, Royal Enfield road tester and amateur flat tracker, Paul Young, around the Southern Californian valleys faster than I could've imagined on an Enfield (and he still got away). And the price... You can't get a brand new, middleweight twin for that price anywhere else. It was clear Royal Enfield knew their niche and were after market share wi

Sideburn reader Mark Loughlin, sent details of his recently finished street-legal hooligan. I'm kinda new to this bike building stuff, other than some tinkering on my GN250 brat (see below at the Malle Mile), this is my first attempt at a build. I met Charlie Stockwell at Lydden Hill Bike Shed Festival last year and loved the look of his hooligans. After a follow-up chat with him at Warrs London in November I decided to build one myself. I didn't even have a donor bike at tha

Back in November I was invited on a flying visit to Goa, India, for Royal Enfield's RiderMania owners meeting. I shuffled a few things around, got the shortest turnaround possible and started out on a 47-hour round trip. The big attraction for me was to ride the new Himalayan flat trackers. We had a feature lined up for SB39, which had just gone to print, focussing on the S&S Cycle prepared fleet of Himalayans, built with carbon fibre bodywork. I thought the bikes I was lined