2024 ROYAL ENFIELD 450cc Himalayan TEST 

I currently ride a lightweight 200cc bike called the XPulse in India. It is atrocious on the highways but I ship it close to the Himalayas and in the mountains it's more than enough. Lightweight so in difficult conditions can get out easy. Of course I want a bit more power. Waiting for the Him to come with the tubeless spoke rims and when they're made available will be picking one up which will do almost everything I want. Few friends of mine have big bikes and they always just go on highways cos they ant handle the big bikes on bad roads and the fear of dropping and breaking something and parts costing a ton. The new Him 450, CF Moto 452, upcoming Kove 800 (supposed 190kgs or less kerb weight) are all great options.

Thats a great way to frame it. I'm getting a used low Km T7 this year, doing some off road mods for a couple grand, and will still have less than 10K in the bike. My buddy just paid 32K for his loaded R1300GS. Even if I bought a new base T7 (buy base model T7 and modify is Manuel's recommendation) and added the mods, I would have 20K to spare for training, hotels, fuel, events etc. for several years. I will never drop that kind of money on a bike.

This is why RE is successful

Never heard the phrase 'techno nanny feature'. 😂

Sales-people hate this guy. Enjoy your Himalayan :)

Surely would be an interesting project to turn it into a ready to rally bike and go race with it an amateur rally!

@@ManuelLucchese1 Do a weight reduction build! That'll be really fun!

Not a big fan of the 5k Service intervall. Wanted to get one but that service intervall is kind of a dealbreaker for us.

@@ScramTours 5k is just a check service which I'm sure many would be able to do. Comprehensive check and fluids n filter changes are at 10k.

​@@augm3nt384 At least in Europe it has to be done by a Certified Royal Enfield Dealer so you dont void the waranty. One Service is around 200-250 Euros in most parts of Europe and some annoying Waitlists in the RIding Season. Not really a problem if you dont ride a lot. If you do the costs rack up quite fast compared to the competition: KTM 390 ADV - 7.5k Honda NX500 - 12k Triumph Scrambler - 16k Simply leaves a bad taste in my mouth if something needs more Service than a KTM. I hope the Service Intervall goes up to 10k as soon as they have enough data on the new engine! Looks like an awesome bike.

Thanks a lot!! Really happy you enjoyed the review, as there are tons of reviews out there I always want to try find something that has not been mentioned by others. Would be surely a cool project to make a build out of it and test it in a rally race

Thanks!!! Happy you enjoyed the review, we had a great time with it and it’s one of those bike that doesn’t make big hyped promises and delivers what it says it will do

@@ManuelLucchese1 exactly

fuck Ceat ! Use Rally STR from Pirelli. It's fucking worth it for Adv Models1

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Thanks a lot!!!! Really Happy you liked it!

Itchy boots was actually in India and not Nepal. Both countries share the Himalayas.

Can you please tell me witch modifications he made to the bike?

@@manueldiaspereira8347 go to his RU-vid channel.

I believe the Rally package is a must gives such a much cooler look to the bike and nicer sound. Furthermore for offroad riding the rally seat improves the handling. I think the rally accessories should be release in May or June

Which country?

Those tires need to be certified by the government, and you know how fast our government is.

@@Bhargav443 what tyres? It's the rims not tyres. And the bike has been in development for atleast 3-4 years. You think the government will take so much time? And how are BMW, Triumph, Ducati selling their ADVs with tubeless rims at the same time? 🤷🏽‍♂️

​@@Whatreally123the tubeless rim with spokes is harder to certify cause it is patented.

@@buzzlightyear1484 nope. Certification has absolutely nothing to do with patents. Patents are only for production so that no other company can produce their patented product. Certification is to check whether the rims can work satisfactorily or not as per that country's regulations. Your confusing the two. And all the big brands are selling their ADVs with similar tubeless rims. So obviously they've got them certified. As I've said in an earlier comment, RE would've been working on developing this bike for at least 3-4 years. Why the tubeless rims weren't certified all this while is the question, if it is a question of certification. I'm sure patent shouldn't be a problem. RE pays the company having the patent and they let RE use their design.

I really want to try them both as I’m super curious, I am interested in testing the good and the bad to understand where each model really excels. I will try see if I manage to get the local distributor to let me test one

@@ManuelLucchese1 that would be amazing. I had already discarded Himalayan but your review brought it back to my choices... Also interested in kove 800x which is lighter than Himalayan even

Available in all countries except in india.

Yep

Tubeless tire only available for top end model

No entiendo

We pushed the bike hard and tested it properly as you saw in the video

@@ManuelLucchese1 Must be a different video then...

@@adolfgerhardhermann5952 or you must be watching maybe another channel

Whatever you say man, thanks for your comment

I think you have to give it context, as I mentioned in the video for 5.900 euro what can you really buy that offers a good reliability and can have fun on it? It’s not clearly a race bike nor a bike ready to do a desert rally but putting all into context it’s a great option for who wants to start adventure riding without breaking the bank

@@ManuelLucchese1 Im a Manny fan, but this bike doesn’t belong on your channel

@@positivecarry07 one of the next videos coming will be a simple 690 build and then a cool T7 build :p

@@ManuelLucchese1 I just received my 24 Gas Gas 700 from Kaplan. Iván Ramírez from Red Bull is building the bike for rally as we speak. We went with a Nomad tower due to cost. I’m excited to see your next 690 build.

...and the bike snobs crawl out from under their KTMs...in the dealer shops.