Issue #93

Inspired By Custom, For Custom. That’s the official tag line for Royal Enfield’s Shotgun 650, the Indian firm’s latest incarnation of their globally-popular, parallel twin lineup. The Shotgun was released last summer and immediately seduced custom motorcycle enthusiasts with its voluptuous lines, frisky performance and easy adaptability. RE kept things real with the Shotgun, avoiding… Read more: Shotgun Central

The stopping and cornering capabilities of our 1974 Norton Commando 850 has been improved in ways the engineers at the British factory could have never imagined. High-tech running gear was molasses-in-January slow to reach British motorcycles back in the 1960s and ’70s, even though disc brakes had been standard issue on many British cars and… Read more: Give Us A Brake

Story by Mike Seate  •  Photos by Nikki Marie Photography As British manufacturers discovered more than half a century ago, line-ups can expand quite easily by de­signing new motorcycles around existing engine plat­forms. Indian’s Royal Enfield struck sales gold in 2018 with their versatile 650cc parallel twin engine introduced in the Continental GT cafe racer… Read more: FIRST RIDE Royal Enfield Shotgun 650

CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE Differentiating different batteries: A traditional AGM or sealed lead acid battery (1) is larger and far heavier than a Firepower lithium cell battery (2), which is equipped with a built-in LED test light, and the tiny Shorai lithium battery (3). Story and Photos by Mike Seate We’ve experienced a love-loathe… Read more: CR TECH Lithium Batteries Explained