A good news for RE fans out there!





Royal Enfield's most rumored Interceptor 650 & the Continental GT has a long history to talk about, previously launched in the year 1960 & 1965 respectively but with different engine capacities. Now Royal Enfield has planned something serious about it & they've finally launched it in an event in US.









Testing the seating positions of both the bikes we get to know that Interceptor 650 is designed for exclusive touring & the Continental GT 650 is for the cafe-racer because of the aggressive seating position. Seat height is kept at 793 mm & 804 mm for the Continental GT 650 & Interceptor 650 respectively. The ground clearance is kept 174 mm standard on the two.





The engine is a 648 cc liquid cooled twin-parallel engine which produces about 47 Bhp at 7250 RPM & a peak torque of 52 Nm at 5250 RPM, which is slightly under-powered looking at the dimensions of the bikes. The braking system is shared between the two bikes which is 320 mm disc at the front & 240 mm disc at the rear. Dual channel ABS is standard in both the models. The retro styled 18" rims is paired with the Pirelli Phantom SportComp tyres for the superior ride quality.

Though the dates of launching in India isn't confirmed yet but is expected to be in November & will reach the buyers in the next year. The prices will be around Rs. 3 Lakhs, which will make these two value-for-money mid-range bikes in India.





Hope we could expect the same specifications & with the same quality of materials to be used when launched in our country.



