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2021 Royal Enfield Meteor 350 review: Cruiser style for moped money

By Matthew A. Garcia 1 week ago
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The Meteor 350 mixes American cruiser and British standard bike style to end up with a handsome motorcycle.


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American motorcycle buyers are pretty touchy when it comes to cruisers. They tend to view the recipe as fairly fixed, which is largely why we continue to see big, heavy baggers with massive, torque-heavy, low-revving engines and stratospheric price tags from the likes of Harley-Davidson or Indian. This resistance to change could make life difficult for a company like Royal Enfield — which is known for its small-displacement, affordable motorcycles — to break into the cruiser market. That isn’t going to stop Enfield from trying, though, which brings me to the 2021 Meteor 350.

The Meteor 350 is an odd little motorcycle. It has many hallmarks of the cruiser segment that fans of old-school American models will find familiar, like a heel shifter, pillion backrest or an available tall windscreen.

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2021 Aprilia Tuono 660 first ride review: Less power, same fun

By Matthew A. Garcia 2 weeks ago
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The Tuono 660 offers a big Tuono riding experience in a more manageable package.


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The Aprilia Tuono V4 1100 is an incredible motorcycle. It’s hugely powerful, aggressively styled and wildly competent — but pretty expensive, and ultimately, not for beginners. For everyone else, there’s the new Aprilia Tuono 660, which takes the same formula and pairs it with a much more approachable powerplant. The result is something pretty special.

The heart of the Tuono 660 is its 660-cc parallel twin-cylinder engine, putting out 100 horsepower. The high-revving twin gives up a lot of the all-around torque that the V4 Tuono has in spades (49 pound-feet versus 89 lb-ft), but it maintains that bike’s thrilling top-end rush. This is not a bike that wants to chug around in the lower registers of its rev range, but offers smooth throttle response, even in its Dynamic throttle mode. 

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2021 KTM 125 Duke Review: Image Gallery

By Matthew A. Garcia 1 month ago


a man riding a motorcycle down a street: 2021 KTM 125 Duke Review: Image Gallery

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2021 KTM 125 Duke Review: Image Gallery

We recently spent a good number of hours on the 2021 KTM 125 Duke’s saddle to find out what kind of experience it delivers. And here we bring you all the images of the motorcycle from our review.   



a motorcycle parked on the side of a road: Right Rear Three Quarter

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Right Rear Three Quarter

The 2021 KTM 125 Duke has received a major cosmetic overhaul, getting a styling similar to its older siblings, the 200 and 250 Duke. So, it comes with aggressively styled bodywork as well as full-LED lighting for the tail lamp and turn indicators. The headlamp comes with an LED DRL.   



Instrument Cluster

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Instrument Cluster

For a 125cc motorcycle, the KTM 125 Duke is heavily packed with features like inverted front forks, LCD instrument cluster that offers multiple information as well as a single-channel ABS. Now, the overall build quality

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2021 Royal Enfield Himalayan Review

By Matthew A. Garcia 1 month ago


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It was the year 2016 when Royal Enfield launched a very distinctive-looking motorcycle, something that was a complete departure from the company’s style of motorcycles. After riding on the success of Classics and Bullets for decades, Royal Enfield introduced adventure riding to its fans for the first time and there has been no looking back since. The Himalayan could be given substantial credit for popularising adventure riding in India. ADVs had been limited to big bike manufacturers which were not affordable for many but the Himalayan was the most affordable ADV in the country for some years.

Fast forward to the year 2021 and the Himalayan now has even more to show for itself than it did in its first generation.

In its MY2021 version, the Himalayan remains identical to the motorcycle we rode over a year ago when it was launched with BS-VI

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