With stopping drinking and saving the money instead I soon saved up £3000 in a year - yep £250 a month I used to spend on Westons Cider!, that is nuts!, so in August 2025 I bought a Royal Enfield Himalayan 411 which was a month under 2 years old...
The bike was bought from a certain wholesale warehouse type shop and I will NEVER buy a motorcycle from a shop like that ever again.
The bike was delivered with no paperwork included V5, 1 key, and to top it off it failed to start after of course the delivery driver was long gone.
I should have been on the phone to the shop straight away and told them to take it back, but I was too impatient to get it on the road having insured it the previous day and being on holiday.
Over the following month I would sort the badly fitted (and bent) Hand guards and bought a new battery and the following month new Continental tyres, this is all covered on films on my YouTube channel...
The bike was then used as intended for big days out and this year some weekend trips up North to rv with G and Murphy dog in the van - no tent needed now!, and it has run 99% perfect, the EML orange light still comes on out of the blue and can go off again just as randomly, its all part of that era of Royal Enfields early foray into the modern electrical world!,
Pics from days out locally and trips up north...
A Touring seat via India on eBay was tried but I found the foam too soft on long days and and the bike more of a handful walking it about while seated and in awkward situations off road. Friend farmer Chris has recently just bought a Himi too, so I gifted him the seat as he being well over 6ft made sense for hime to use it...
An other thing I tried was raising the gearing using a 16t sprocket which in theroy was better for faster open roads, but the bike is back on stock gearing as this is no speed demon and it does 75-80 mph fat out what ever the gearing and its happiest on county roads where the stock gearing is perfect. I have talked about this and a lot of other stuff about the bike in films made,
Last trip away was a weekend to Callander to rv with G for her 100th Munro, 40th Munro for Murphy Dog!, and I carried my Hillwalking gear in a roll bag on the back of the bike...
I got out with Chris for a run though the Windfarm tracks in the Local hills and having permission it was a great day out. 50 miles and nearly all off road...
The bike is sorted now and I am just going to run it, and keep it serviced which you can do yourself easily enough. As with my Classic 350 bikes I used the same Semi synthetic Mannol oil which I bough 5 gallons of, and loads of Oil filters from Royal Parts in India via eBay...
It is looking like the re launch 411 now a 44cc with 6 speed gearbox though still the same OG bike, is at present not coming to Europe and the UK, which is a shame as would be a good replacement when the time comes but for now we have a lot of Adventure to enjoy...
More soon...
