I sold the DR200 and bought a New Royal Enfield Meteor last week.  I got the Stellar Blue model .

I filled it up with fuel and started breaking it in.    

What happened next is hard to believe but I'm "eye witness" to it.

It holds 3.9 US gallons and I was expecting maybe 75 mpg like the DR200 did.  
Unlike the DR200 that struggled to cruse along at 60mph the RE runs up to 60 like its headed for 80 (I'm not supposed to get above 50 for the break-in period) but its so willing to "GO" !  
On with the story , it has a fuel gauge on the dash with seven bars , well today it finally made it to the "ONE-Bar" left . , and the fuel light came on.  
So I headed for the next fuel station and was showing 257 miles on the tank-full when I got there.

It feels like the Savage when ridding.  
The stroke is a little less than the Savage (85.8 vs 94) but still a long stroke.
The bore is the big difference (72 vs 94)  but compress is (9.5-1) so it needs high test (or so the book says).
It sits and handles like the Savage too .

On to the amazing part :   So I topped the tank off with all I dare put it , and turned to see what the pump says in gallons .  I could hardly believe it ... it was 2.57 gallons for 257 miles.   That means there was still 1.33 gallons left in the tank when the light comes on , and at 100 mpg that equated to a 350 mile cruise range .  
Three hundred miles between fill-up with no sweat.   I know the Guzzi got better and better up to about 15k-miles where it seemed to level off and I suspect the RE will be the same way too.
By time I got back home the odometer has 300+ miles on it and I'm supposed to the change oil and check the valves.   Well , it came with a 5 year unlimited miles warrantee (material + workmanship) w/3 year of it bumper to bumper on anything but tires.  So I'll be keeping up with the 6000 mile oil changes like I'm supposed too and maintaining records and receipts (just in case).

Anyway , I'm impressed with the company so far.  

Very Nice , I’m kinda jealous

"Oh" its comfortable , I've put 315 miles on it putting around back roads since last Tuesday .   Riding for an hour and a half at a time.   It sits like the Suzuki LS650 does , nice and easy !  Bars are wider and the fly-wheel is a lot heavier .   It spins for a full three exaust notes after its turned off from an idle (950rpm), but there's no back-fire ?  Personally I like the heavy flywheel , its real smooth running.   My burning the road up days are perty much behind me now.
The 350 motor and the 411 motor look just alike but neither of them are scream machines.    I think that in India the price of fuel and longevity must be more important than speed ?  
The way I understand it :  In India a 350cc is a big bike.   It seems willing to everything but the Interstate .  

Ruttly , you ought to get ya one of them they don't cost as much as their competition.

One of the guys on the Meteor web site (that has his broken-in) posted that he got on the super-slab to wind it out and only got to 75 before traffic slowed him down.   Its real happy at 60mph and that OK .  

Long time ago I had a Honda CB350 Twin that would run 100mph any day of  the week and would cruise at 70 (7000rpm) as long as the gas lasted.   That was part of the problem it only got 35-40mpg !      

The RE makes its max power at 4000rpm and redlines at 6100rpm.   Some of the folks think it has a rpm limiter built into it somehow , but it will be while before mine's fully broke-in so I can't say for now ?    

Indians, and much of the rest of the world, don't have "super slab".

I think I would like to have one. That would make a fine grocery getter. Mount the wooden Lucerne milk crate across the seat and hang bags on it and it would be fine..

It really does look like a baby sportster. Happy for you MM. Nice looking bike, comfortable, great mpg. Way to go!

Serowbot wrote on 06/29/22 at 10:19:07:


Exactly! Styling the Buell Blast like a naked sport bike was a fatal mistake.