Don't mention the war...
Until retro really became popular, ironically, around the start of the 21st Century (boy), motorcycles were about aiming at the future, stretching the throttle cable as tight as a banjo string and not looking back (except to see if that blue BMW you whipped past at 120mph was an unmarked police car). Now the headline-grabbing bikes are as likely to have been styled with 40, 50, or in this case, nearly 70 year-old design cues as truly modern thinking. Royal Enfield is a compan