The Budget Bonneville 2021 Royal Enfield Interceptor 650 Review Daily Rider
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00:00Good day everybody, Zach Kordes here with RevZilla and welcome to another episode of
00:05Daily Rider where we learn about motorcycles as we ride.
00:09Our special guest this time around is Royal Enfield's Interceptor 650.
00:15That is a 648cc air-cooled parallel twin with not a lot of features aside from looking like
00:21it stepped straight out of a time machine set to 1970.
00:25So, how does a new Indian version of an old British motorcycle handle a modern day American
00:30daily ride?
00:31We're about to find out.
00:33Here we go!
00:41Alright everybody, we are back and ready to roll.
00:47Royal Enfield INT650, the sort of crown jewel of the bike, this lump of an engine, which
00:53is probably pretty heavy because there's not a whole lot to the rest of the bike, but
00:56it manages to be pretty heavy.
00:57We'll talk about that when we talk about specs, but it is a beautiful engine to look at, in
01:00my opinion.
01:01It's finished nicely and it's pretty, it's classic.
01:04This sort of sweep of the exhaust pipe is very simple and clean and good looking, in
01:10my opinion.
01:12Some signs of budgetness, as I said, this bike starts at $5,800, I think this one with
01:18the two-tone paint I do believe is around $6,000.
01:20But yeah, you've got pretty cheap stamped levers here.
01:23The bracket that comes off the frame that holds the exhaust pipe and the passenger foot
01:28peg is not removable, so you know, if you bend that, the frame is bent.
01:32So these are signs of bikes that are built to a price point.
01:36There's the same thing on plenty of other bikes from Europe and Japan, for what it's
01:40worth, but probably notable.
01:42Also no adjustable levers, stuff like that.
01:44We'll talk more about that.
01:45But in general, build quality is pretty good.
01:47I think I like the paint.
01:48It's nice and rich.
01:49It's clean.
01:50Branding's nice.
01:51It's a sleek looking bike.
01:52It's got a sort of quilted pattern on the seat that I like.
01:54And it's braking hardware is on the other side here.
01:58This is a 320 mil rotor.
02:00You can see the ring for ABS and a Bybree caliper.
02:04So this is the Indian subsidiary of Brembo.
02:07So Bybree is by Brembo.
02:09And yeah, this, this brand is used on sort of low level KTMs, 390s and that kind of thing.
02:15So yeah, anyway, pretty standard componentry, a handsome bike, I think.
02:21And it sounds quite good.
02:22Let's fire it up.
02:23It actually has aftermarket exhaust on it, S&S exhaust, which I believe cost just about
02:32700 bucks, $675, I think, for these slip-ons.
02:35Normally I do not do aftermarket parts on the Daily Rider.
02:38I try and get bikes as stock as possible, but this is what was available this time around.
02:41So we get to bask in the lovely dulcet tones of aftermarket pipes, which are slightly louder
02:48than the stock ones.
02:50Okey-doke.
02:51Pretty good rundown, right?
02:52Let's see what it's like on the Daily Ride already.
02:58And off we go.
03:06Cloudy cool day here in Los Angeles.
03:10Got my wax cotton jacket.
03:11I feel like that was appropriate for the retro faux British bike here.
03:17As I said, 648 cc parallel twin.
03:21Seat height I believe is 31.6 inches, memory serves.
03:26Friendly reminder while we're going through all these specs that all the specs are listed
03:29in imperial and metric numbers in the description of every Daily Rider video.
03:36So that's where you can find all these numbers that I list right here.
03:38In fact, check me, see if I'm remembering things correctly.
03:41So yeah, 31 and change inches of the seat.
03:45Nice and approachable.
03:46We'll talk about that when we're at a stoplight, which I foresee in our future.
03:50On the Daily Rider scale, it's 569 pounds with a full tank of gas, which is a pretty
03:56heavy especially for a motorcycle that only claims 47 horsepower and about 35 foot pounds
04:05of torque, I think.
04:07So yeah, not a rocket ship.
04:09We're probably not going to be doing any really long wheelies today, if any.
04:14It carries its weight pretty low.
04:15So those 570 pounds are not so bad.
04:22And the other thing I wanted to mention is sometimes bike weights can be a little bit
04:25skewed the way that I do them because I measure bikes with a full tank and of course fuel
04:32weighs something.
04:33So a bike with an eight gallon tank is going to give up a little bit to a bike with a four
04:37gallon tank because it's going to carry an extra whatever that is, 18 pounds of fuel,
04:42something like that.
04:43But the fuel tank on the INT650 is 3.6 gallons, so it's kind of a small fuel tank.
04:50But yeah, still, like I said, a bit of a heavy bike, but it rides nice and low and in general
05:00is pretty darn comfortable.
05:02It feels like sitting on a motorcycle.
05:03It feels like the sort of like prototypical, basic, standard motorcycle, especially ones
05:08from 40 or 50 years ago.
05:10Okay, as we're headed toward the freeway here, did we get all the specs?
05:13I think we did.
05:14Fuel capacity, seat height, weight, claimed horsepower, cc's, what else?
05:23Am I forgetting something?
05:24Whatever.
05:25It's pretty good.
05:30I'll get more to the engine later, but I was surprised to hear that it only had 47 claimed
05:35horsepower, which probably means it's only low 40s on the dyno or something.
05:38But I don't know if it's the 35 foot pounds of torque, also not a very impressive number,
05:42but it feels good.
05:44Accelerates nicely.
05:45The bike's great at this, honestly.
05:47It's totally happy.
05:48It's quite smooth.
05:50The riding position, again, is pretty comfortable.
05:52There's absolutely no wind protection, obviously.
05:55And that's kind of a bummer sometimes because you end up just holding on for dear life a
06:01little bit if you try and go faster than this.
06:03Or, you know, if you want to go 75 or 80, you can do that.
06:08It's just a little bit more stressful for your body because you're just getting all
06:11the wind right in the chest.
06:12But as I said, nice flat seats.
06:14You can slide back and forth and kind of lean into the wind a little bit if you want to.
06:17And I'm very impressed with how smooth the engine is at this speed.
06:20You know, 75 miles an hour just sort of hums along.
06:23It doesn't vibrate too much.
06:25It just seems happy enough.
06:27It doesn't seem stressed.
06:28Yeah, I got mostly good things to say right now.
06:34One thing that's definitely true, and I don't want to forget to mention it because I was
06:36just talking about how smooth the engine is, is that the mirrors are not good.
06:41They're really bad.
06:42And I don't really know why.
06:44They're kind of like in the right place and they're not a terrible shape.
06:47They're just, I don't know, they're kind of warped.
06:51The view is odd and they vibrate like they're not even vibrating that much.
06:55They just like wiggle around and I don't know, they're not, they're not very good, which
06:59is too bad.
07:00I feel like it's sort of like it almost makes me think, oh, you know, it makes me think
07:05the engine is making the bike vibrate and it kind of betrays how smooth the bike is
07:10to ride.
07:11When I look in the mirror and it looks like, it looks like that.
07:13I feel like you just put a nicer set of mirrors on here, it would work better, but I don't
07:18know.
07:19The bottom line here is that it's not an inherently comfortable motorcycle from an ergonomic and
07:24wind protection standpoint.
07:26And also the seat is a little stiff and yeah, not great after a long day in the saddle certainly.
07:34But yeah, like you could, I'd ride this thing to, I don't know, I'd ride a thousand miles
07:38tomorrow and it'd be totally fine.
07:40I wouldn't be as comfortable as I would be on a, you know, on a luxury bike, but I'd
07:43probably be, I don't know, just about as comfortable as I'd be on anything else you can get for
07:485,800 bucks, I think, I don't know, what else?
07:51Anyway, the point is it's surprisingly sort of smooth and capable and willing to trot
07:58down the freeway at 75 miles an hour, considering it's, you know, arguably kind of a budget
08:03bike.
08:04And speaking of efficiency of the engine, actually, usually I've done all the fuel mileage
08:08figures, but I didn't, I didn't calculate my most recent mileage figures on this bike.
08:14I'm going to have to pull over and do that so that I can report back to you.
08:19Coming to the end of the freeway stint here, oop, red light, son of a gun, I got to say
08:25I'm not super sad to be off the freeway.
08:35Okie doke, trundled into the neighborhood here, but before we do, I'm genuinely curious
08:39about the whole fuel mileage thing, and I feel guilty not having reported to you, the
08:47loyal viewer, so I'm just going to do that real quick here.
08:52We're in my gas mileage document here, this goes way back, look at this, Aprilia Caponord,
09:01Hypermotard, MV Agusta F3 800, if you need any gas mileage figures, you let me know.
09:0750 mpg, and a 3.6 gallon tank, is that what I said?
09:11Anyway, so you're going to want to get gas every 150 miles, depending on your route and
09:15how aggressively you ride, I'm glad I know, I'm glad I can tell you what my actual data
09:21was for crying out loud.
09:23Okie doke, we're hitting the road again, time for the old neighborhood stop sign test.
09:29I don't know that the Interceptor 650 is going to be super great at this, there we go, first
09:36footless stop in the books, not so bad, the zero mile an hour thing is a little bit nebulous
09:42with the analog speedo here, you know, you can kind of fudge it a little bit.
09:47In general, the Interceptor 650 is very polite around town, very polite, I've been super
09:53impressed.
09:55Fueling is not totally perfect, it's a little that like, herky jerky on hop thing is like
10:01a little easy to get into, you just have to be a little gentle, sometimes I find myself
10:05going through intersections, hey, another old car, I wonder if that's also a 2020 model.
10:10Probably not.
10:11Anyhow, sometimes I find myself going through intersections and dragging the rear brake
10:15a little bit instead of getting off the gas and then back on because it's a little herky
10:20jerky, especially with the passenger on board.
10:23But in general, yeah, it's quite easy to ride, the balance is pretty good, the rake number
10:29on this bike is actually pretty steep, so that's the angle at which the fork is attached
10:35to the frame, and it's a 24 degree rake, which is pretty aggressive.
10:40It's usually sort of a sport bike territory, but yeah, it works pretty nicely.
10:48Feels a lot lighter than the nearly 500 pounds that it is, and in general, good clutch feel
10:55and good sort of feedback from the bike, it's easy to ride.
10:59I would definitely recommend this bike for someone who is getting into bikes or maybe
11:07they had a slightly smaller one and they want to upgrade a little bit, I would for sure
11:11put this to a new or returning rider because I think it's an excellent platform and it's
11:16executed quite nicely, especially for round town riding.
11:28As we approach this stop sign, I'm not going to go for a footless stop, I'm going to talk
11:33about footpeg placement when you're at a stop sign because I heard some people complain
11:37about this and they said that every time they put their feet down, they hit their legs or
11:40their shins on the footpegs.
11:43I have not had that problem, but I will say that at 6'2", it's very easy for me to flat
11:48foot and I sit pretty far forward in the seat, I think if you sat a little bit farther back
11:51and your legs were a little bit shorter than mine are, then you might have that problem.
11:56I don't mention that as a criticism of this bike because it's a very personal thing, I've
12:01had bikes where I put my feet down and my legs hit the pegs and I think that it totally
12:07sucks and then I ask a colleague or a friend or something and they're like, I know I haven't
12:10had that problem with that bike.
12:11So it's very specific to the way you sit on a bike and your positioning and your size.
12:18One thing about the footpegs that I think is a little funny is that the casting sticks
12:25out pretty far.
12:26I find myself putting my feet on the sort of like frame or the piece of metal that comes
12:32out from the side of the bike to hold the footpeg, so it's sort of like a clunky design
12:36thing that I don't love.
12:37Okie dokie, Lovers Lane, talking about passenger accommodations as we often do.
12:43My lovely wife has not ridden on this bike, but my hetero life mate Ernie Henning did
12:47ride on the back of this bike with me and he did not complain about anything horrible.
12:52I think it's a pretty basic passenger accommodations.
12:55It is a very flat seat, as I said, so if your passenger is your height or any shorter they're
13:00not going to be able to see over you.
13:02So in general I don't think it's going to be great for passengers and I can tell you
13:05based on the rider's section of the seat that there isn't a ton of padding.
13:09But aside from that, it definitely has enough power to shoot down the freeway with two people
13:13on it and yeah, reasonably comfortable for what it is.
13:20Right into our twisty road section.
13:22I've been looking forward to this actually.
13:24This is a nice set of twisty roads for the Interceptor 650.
13:28It's a little bit bumpy, but the suspension action on the Interceptor is pretty good which
13:33is excellent news considering you can't really adjust any of the suspension at all.
13:38And yeah, I did.
13:39I spent many hours on this bike trundling through canyons and having fun and I have
13:45to say I was pretty impressed.
13:47I never dragged a foot peg or really found a limitation to the bike.
13:51I will say that a bike like this doesn't really, you know, provoke you into riding
13:57super fast, you know, like it sort of makes you want to cruise and take it easy.
14:01But in general I found the handling to be really good.
14:03Just like linear, easy, enjoyable to sling through corners and it's not what some people
14:09think it is, which is just a basically just an upright cruiser, you know.
14:13It actually has a, yeah, you can lean on the tires a little bit and enjoy yourself on a
14:17twisty road and it'll have fun doing it.
14:20I think one of the reasons that I don't find myself wishing this bike had more power is
14:23that I don't feel the need to go fast.
14:28It doesn't, it's not like baiting me into it, you know, like when you ride an Aprilia
14:33Tuono or something it's always like, oh yeah, come on, twist it, do it man, I freaking dare
14:36you, come on, come on.
14:38But this bike just sort of, it's like, we're having fun, let's take it easy.
14:44You want to like rev it up a little bit out of every corner, cool, that's fun.
14:47It's the right attitude to have on public roads anyway, if you ask me.
14:52All right, out onto this main thoroughfare here and let's give it the noise.
15:06It's great.
15:07If memory serves, there's Interceptor Twins that were made and sold in the 70s, I think
15:12it was a 680cc, something like that.
15:16And then it was later bumped up to a 7 something, 750 maybe, or 760.
15:23And then Royal Enfield went belly up in the US anyway.
15:28So there's sort of like a whiff of history and pedigree with the Interceptor name with
15:31Royal Enfield, which I can appreciate, but I also appreciate that they kind of shook
15:35the etch-a-sketch and tried to build a bike that was applicable to the modern day rider,
15:41someone who wants a Triumph Bonneville, for example, but doesn't want to pay that much
15:46for a brand new one.
15:48And I think it's a pretty good play actually to make a bike this size.
15:52All the other bikes in this category, whether it's a Triumph Bonneville Street Twin, or
15:57if it's a Kawasaki W800, or, oh yeah, Scootlife, nice, respect, that guy's relaxed, a W800
16:09or the Moto Guzzi models, they're just, they're slightly larger engines.
16:13And Royal Enfield went for, yeah, went for a sort of a smaller air-cooled Twin.
16:19And I think they did a good job positioning it in the market, make it quite a bit cheaper
16:24than the other bikes available and make it look good and feel good to use.
16:29And there's no horsepower war in this class, so why the heck not?
16:34All righty, here we go, out onto Vermont Street, a little honk for Vermont Street.
16:41So we can talk about brakes as we approach the stoplight here.
16:46There's ABS, which is good, because the brakes are strong enough to lock up the front wheel,
16:50which it just did.
16:51I just engaged the ABS on the front, which I appreciate.
16:55Pretty good traction from those Pirelli tires, in my opinion.
17:00I did get a comment on my Instagram page when I posted a picture of this bike and someone
17:04in India or Malaysia, I think India, said that after about a year, they found the brakes
17:10got pretty shitty and faded and they need to put new pads in that had more bite.
17:15So that's one piece of feedback from the other side of the world, if it helps you.
17:21In general, I think the brakes are pretty good.
17:22The rear and the front both feel pretty sharp and progressive and good.
17:26Dash is very simple.
17:27Look at that.
17:28Tack on the right, Speedo on the left, and a little LCD in the middle that has Trip A,
17:32Trip B, and odometer.
17:34That's your lot.
17:35You want to know what time it is?
17:36Figure it out yourself.
17:39Just as well that you don't know what time I'm doing this daily ride.
17:42Not exactly on time for work, let's just put it that way.
17:45But yeah, very simple dash.
17:48But I think they did a fine job.
17:49It's a classic.
17:50I mean, it's a great look for the bike and you know, you arguably don't need more information
17:56than that.
17:57So respect, I suppose.
18:01Also, I did also receive a question on Instagram about, should you make this bike into a scrambler?
18:10So nice footless stop, juicy.
18:13So we'll experiment with how this bike handles on our dirt shortcut here.
18:18My prediction is no, do not make a scrambler out of this bike.
18:22It is very heavy and low and I don't think you should make a scrambler out of it.
18:29You know, they don't have a stop sign.
18:32Everybody be cool, Zach.
18:37Okie dokie, here we go down the dirt.
18:41Oh man, it's still big puddles here.
18:43It rained in a while.
18:44It's still big puddles.
18:45So should we shop and show off trash control?
18:49Just kidding.
18:50No trash control.
18:51Okay.
18:52That's probably enough of that.
18:59I mean, if it's one thing Royal Enfield is probably not going to be afraid of, it's trundling
19:04down a little gravel lane or something, right?
19:08Built like a gun, as they say.
19:10And yeah, this bike's fine.
19:12And actually getting a little swayzy on it reminded me, I did the slide school with Royal
19:19Enfield, got some instruction from Johnny Lewis himself, reminded me of his Royal Enfield
19:25flat track bike.
19:26Here we go.
19:28Let's hit, let's hit the big one.
19:30Why not?
19:31Shall we?
19:32Oh boy, I'm going to regret this.
19:33I think suspension didn't bottom out, but I can't say I'd recommend that.
19:42That's for sure.
19:43See if it'll pop a wheelie, shall we?
19:46I haven't actually tried this yet.
19:48Oh, we got a little one with a clutch slip in first gear.
19:55We got a little wheelie.
19:58I wouldn't recommend that though.
20:00It wasn't very satisfying and it seemed like it was hard on the clutch.
20:04So I mean, yeah, I don't want to make too big a meal out of like, oh, the bike can go
20:08down a dirt road and you can hit a jump on it and it'll do a wheelie and wow, what a
20:12bike.
20:13I can't believe the value of it.
20:14I guess I just was expecting, not expecting, I just, I would not have been surprised if
20:20the clutch feel was bad and the transmission was crummy and there was vague crappy handling
20:26and the suspension bottomed out over stuff that it shouldn't have.
20:29And the switches felt like they were going to fall apart and that kind of thing.
20:33You know, like there is a maybe somewhat unfortunate reputation for, um, for, for bikes made in
20:42certain areas of the world that they're not going to be high quality and, and certainly
20:46that reputation follows, um, other, other models from Royal Enfield around and even
20:51other brands.
20:52So, yeah, I guess maybe part of that got to me and I was thinking that some of that stuff
20:58was going to be true and I guess I'm just pleasantly surprised that everything is pretty
21:01reasonable.
21:02Let's see if we can back it in here, go into the right.
21:06No, no, no, no, no.
21:10Doesn't want to back it in.
21:12One more try into the office park.
21:14We got a little one, we got a little one, but not much.
21:20Doesn't love that.
21:21And we'll trundle over and do our little U-turn test, a little parking lot test.
21:26Yeah, the steering does feel really sharp at this speed.
21:29Not too sharp, but pretty sharp.
21:31All right.
21:32Here we go.
21:33And we're in our parking space.
21:35We're going full lock to this side.
21:36We're turning, we're turning, we're turning.
21:38Yeah.
21:39I think we're at a half, maybe 1.6.
21:42That's pretty good.
21:43Got decent steering sweep.
21:44That's pretty good at this speed, I got to say.
21:47Let me get the foot peg down.
21:48There we go.
21:49Maybe I just woke up on the right side of the bed or something, but I think that the
21:55Royal Enfield Interceptor 650 will make you feel like you woke up on the right side of
22:00the bed.
22:01Plus a standard center stand.
22:03Are you kidding me?
22:05All right, let's get, let's pump out some revs here.
22:10Let's make sure we don't tick off the neighbors too much.
22:14That sounds pretty burly, no?
22:21Cool man.
22:22Instagram questions.
22:23Here we go.
22:24First up, Ash Trick asks, which is better, Interceptor 650 or Continental GT 650 in Royal
22:29Enfield family?
22:30Okay.
22:31I'll raise my hand right now and I will tell you, I have not ridden the GT, the Continental
22:35GT with this engine in it.
22:36I did ride the Continental GT 500, the single, but I do know that the ergonomics are more
22:41aggressive on the GT and I will say that I don't think that more aggressive ergonomics
22:48would be good on this bike.
22:49I think that this is the way to go.
22:52Maybe you want something sporty, you want the look of the Continental GT, I get it.
22:55It looks, you know, it looks kind of sexier.
22:57This one's like a little more upright and dorky, but I'm not going to tell you which
23:01one is better since I have not ridden both.
23:03But my, my instinct is that why not just get the one that is a little bit more comfortable.
23:08I think it looks great still.
23:09So L Doty, was it I Doty or L Doty?
23:13Someone Doty asks, even though I'm sure it's totally incorrect, I still have this idea
23:17about Royal Enfield being notoriously unreliable.
23:19Thoughts?
23:20Yeah.
23:21So we talked about that briefly, right?
23:22This reputation that, that sort of follows Royal Enfield around.
23:26One thing I would like to say, and the reason I saved this question is that in the United
23:32States, anyway, if you buy this bike, you do get a three year unlimited mileage warranty
23:38and roadside assistance from Royal Enfield.
23:42And I feel like they wouldn't do that if they thought their bikes were going to break down.
23:45Maybe they would.
23:46Maybe that's the whole point.
23:47Is it like, oh, you know, our bikes are going to break.
23:48So we got, we prepaid tow truck for you, but I don't think that's the case.
23:52I think what they're saying is we think the bike's going to last and we think it's going
23:54to be fine.
23:55And we'll prove it to you by paying for every single time you need a tow truck for the first
23:59three years you own the bike, which I think is pretty good.
24:02I guess.
24:03I don't know.
24:04Make of that what you will.
24:06Little Joe 13 says, I have a 2009 865 Bonneville.
24:09How does it compare to that?
24:11Good question.
24:12It's been a minute since I rode an 865 Bonneville, but it does remind me of that for sure.
24:16I think that the 865 Bonneville, I'm not sure which one you have, but there was a 17 inch
24:20wheel one, I think.
24:21And then was there also an 18 or 19?
24:23The 17 inch wheel Bonneville from that era, in my opinion, was a little sharper, I believe.
24:28And I'm not sure if it was 09 or maybe it was 2012.
24:31Anyway, the point is 17 inch wheel bike from that era, I think was a little bit pointier
24:35and a little bit more agile than the other bikes.
24:38In general, though, very, very comparable bike.
24:41I can't speak to, I don't have in-depth knowledge of the 865 Bonneville as far as longevity
24:47and that kind of thing.
24:48But I do know that my good friend Spurgeon Dunbar wrote a story about owning his Triumph
24:52Bonneville for 15 years, I think, or 20, 15 years, I think.
24:55So that's an article you can look for on CommonTread at RevZilla.com.
24:58And Spurgeon will tell you all about what it's like to own a Bonneville for 15 years.
25:03Spazband85 says, seat padding looks a little thin.
25:06Better than it looks?
25:07If so, how comfortable is it?
25:08Not very comfortable.
25:09It is a little thin, as Spazband points out.
25:12It's a nice seat.
25:13It's fine.
25:14You know, I always sort of equate seats to the fuel range, right?
25:19You're going to need to get gas after 150 miles on this bike anyway, and by that time
25:22you're going to want to get off the seat.
25:24So that's how I would rate it.
25:25I suppose.
25:26TWP says, looks beautiful.
25:31How solid are those dial gauges?
25:32That's right.
25:33I remember this.
25:34I don't, I don't know why you're asking about solidity of the dial gauges, but pretty solid.
25:36I don't know.
25:37They're on there.
25:38Yeah.
25:39They don't, they don't wiggle around or anything.
25:40They're, they're mounted with this, um, sort of cheap stamped steel, um, bracket.
25:45That's not terribly interesting, but, um, I don't know.
25:48Yeah.
25:49And they got little rubber mounts there, so they shouldn't come apart.
25:51Not that the bike vibrates very much, but I don't know.
25:53Hopefully that answers your question.
25:56Touseef 707 says, like the foot peg positioning.
25:58I do.
25:59Um, but I, the reason I say this one is I wanted to show you guys that tab I was talking
26:02about when I was riding.
26:03Um, so yeah, see this, how it sticks out here.
26:05I just wish the foot peg, if they want to have the foot peg here, just have a slightly
26:10longer, uh, like a thinner bracket if, if, if you want to do that instead of having this
26:14big chunk of metal, because I sometimes want to put my foot up there and then it's sort
26:17of like awkward.
26:19But other than that, yeah.
26:20Uh, foot pegs position is good.
26:21The, uh, ergonomics are good in general.
26:25Tmhall.js asks, this versus the XSR 700.
26:29That's interesting comparison.
26:30That's not one that I would have thought of.
26:32This is why I saved this question.
26:34Yeah.
26:35The XSR 700, because it's built on that MT07 platform definitely feels a lot more modern
26:39and a lot kind of rowdier, especially the motor.
26:43Um, so kind of apples and oranges to my eye, but, um, if you're shopping, I don't know.
26:48I think both are, both are interesting.
26:50If you, the XSR 700 is going to offer more performance, um, and it's quite a bit lighter.
26:54And actually one more thing I'll mention when my colleague Gary rode this bike, he is very
26:58familiar with vintage Hondas and he said this Royal Enfield Interceptor 650 reminded him
27:03basically of a perfect early seventies Honda CB450.
27:08He's like, you know, power wise and the feel of it, it feels just like that.
27:11Um, so yeah, again, it's an old bike that has been rebuilt and created.
27:17It's a new old stock motorcycle.
27:19It's not, um, a particularly modern bike that just looks retro.
27:22It actually just is kind of old, which is cool unless you want an XSR 700 that maybe
27:28should get that.
27:29Uh, Buckholtz Joel asks how comfortable would it be for long distance rides?
27:33And we sort of already covered this while we were doing the ride there.
27:35Um, but, uh, yeah, pretty good.
27:38I mean, not super comfortable, but people have ridden long distances on stuff that's
27:43way worse than this.
27:44So don't let this motorcycle or one like it be the reason that you don't ride long distances.
27:49Um, yeah, hit the road.
27:51That's what I'd say.
27:52Okie doke.
27:53That is it for Instagram questions.
27:56Thank you so much as usual for asking those questions.
27:59So bear with me here.
28:00We're going to jump inside.
28:01We're going to put this sucker on the Daily Rider leaderboard and, uh, yeah, we'll have
28:04this sucker in the books.
28:06Hold up.
28:07Okie dokie, everybody.
28:08Here we are.
28:09Oh my God.
28:10Okie dokie, everybody.
28:11Here we are in the bat cave of RevZilla West and the old Daily Rider leaderboard.
28:19And, uh, over here, we've got the Royal Enfield Interceptor 650 ready to go on this list.
28:25That's the top five as it stands.
28:28Um, and the Interceptor 650 was good.
28:31Not top five material though, I don't think, sorry.
28:34Not as good as a Street Triple R, not as good as a Street Fighter V4S either.
28:39So you've got a couple of Triumphs down here.
28:41Triumph Daytona 765 Moto 2.
28:43That's kind of a bespoke sport bike.
28:45Um, TFT dash, traction control, some nifty features, um, very good brakes, that kind
28:51of thing, but kind of uncomfortable.
28:53And I think the Royal Enfield's got a beat, frankly.
28:57Yeah.
28:58Is the Royal Enfield Interceptor 650 more comfortable, um, or reasonable?
29:01You don't really need a TFT dash or traction control to get to work or wherever you're
29:05going on your daily ride, do you?
29:07No.
29:08Is the Royal Enfield Interceptor 650 better than a Yamaha MT-03?
29:12Similar amount of options, similar riding position, similar horsepower, um, uh, Interceptors
29:18ride a little faster than the MT-03, but you know, they're, they're comparable and a comparable
29:21price.
29:22The Interceptor's a little more expensive, much better looking in my opinion.
29:25I digress.
29:26Um, I think we're going to slap this sucker on the leaderboard right here, underneath
29:32Yamaha's MT-03 and just above the Triumph Daytona 765 Moto 2.
29:37If we compare the Interceptor 650 to the CBR 500 and MT-03, um, you know, those are
29:44pretty high quality bikes, albeit ones that come at a reasonable price, but the things
29:47that the Interceptor 650 was particularly good at, in my opinion, um, those bikes are
29:51also good at.
29:52Clutch feel, transmission feel, general sort of usability, practicality, versatility, that
29:56kind of thing.
29:57Those bikes are actually quite good at those things.
30:00And um, I don't think that the, um, the Enfield really has a leg up in that scenario.
30:05So anyhow, um, a mid-pack finish for a $6,000 retro bike made in India.
30:11That's not bad.
30:12I suppose, uh, Royal Enfield, if you're watching, I hope you're, hope you're proud of the effort.
30:16I think it's in quite good standing.
30:17It's in good company there on the leaderboard.
30:19We just got to get a Royal Enfield, uh, tag there, you know, I'm a little behind the times
30:23there.
30:24My bad.
30:25There you have it.
30:26Royal Enfield Interceptor 650 on the Daily Rider leaderboard, another ride in the books
30:29as usual.
30:30I hope you, uh, learned a thing or two.
30:31I hope you had fun and hope to see you next time on Daily Rider.
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