Siddhartha Lal

Siddhartha Lal, CEO Royal Enfield and MD Eicher Motors talks about Royal Enfields first all-new motorcycles in decades, the new 650 Twins and the smashing new UK Technical Centre.

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The 650cc twin project... 

My understanding is that the first sketches were made in January 2014. Obviously we’d started thinking about it before that. In fact, it started life as a 600cc twin. But we weren’t confident of meeting the ton. That’s 160kmph or 100mph. So we eventually upgraded it to 650 and now it certainly crosses the ton.

The first near-final proto...