2016 Royal Enfield Continental GTIf you dismiss the 2016 Royal Enfield Continental GT as a museum piece, you are making a big mistake. Although Royal Enfield perfectly hits the mark on retro café racer styling, the Continental GT has an impressive number of modern features.In addition to a Keihin EFI system, the Continental GT also has electric start, Brembo braking, Paioli reservoir shocks, and Pirelli rubber. Power output is modest, but maximum torque it created at just 4000 rpm; the period appropriate, slightly undersquare overhead valve motor puts out useful power. Ergonomics sit right between clip-ons and upright, while the cowled solo seat looks just right. If this doesn’t authentically take you back to the glory days of British café racing, with its bar-end mirrors, not many new motorcycles will.
Hello everyone and welcome once again to Motos and Friends, the weekly podcast brought to you by Ultimate Motorcycling. My name is Arthur Coldwells.
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In this week’s first segment, Editor Don Williams takes the smallest BMW ADV bike on an urban adventure in Los Angeles. The BMW G 310 GS is a full size motorcycle with a modest engine, so of course we wonder if it is a little too underpowered and might struggle. Don put it through its paces and gives us his take.
In the second segment, Neale Bayly and Kiran Ridley have returned from the Ukraine to Paris where Kiran is based.
Kiran is an award winning photojournalist, and as an accomplished documentarian, he has covered stories as diverse as drug smuggling around the Mexican border, to the devastation of the Australian Bush Fires, to the tragedy of the Mediterranean migration crisis. Neale and Kiran reminisce about their motorcycle adventure in the Ukraine, and their observations and experiences with the incredibly resilient people of Ukraine, who have been put through such brutal hardship.
