Royal Enfield Classic 350

Built:2022-24202220232024

 
The new Royal Enfield Classic 350 inherits the Classic 500 with a Euro 5 compliant engine and plenty of retro feel. We ran the Classic 350 with its 20 hp and were relaxed, chilled and decelerated within seconds - wonderful!

This is how it stands

There it is, the new Classic 350 in front of the entrance of the Hamburg RE dealer Legendary Cycles, who lent us this beautiful machine for this test. You have to look for the optical differences to its predecessor with a magnifying glass, it actually looks exactly like the Classic 500. Fortunately, the cannon barrel exhaust has been preserved as well as the round metal mudguards and the magnificent headlight with the hood cover. This is retro in its purest form, although you have to be a bit careful with the term retro at Royal Enfield. RE has always built motorcycles like this, they just never stopped!

 

When sitting up, immediate poodle-feel-good adjustment: Upright sitting position, handlebars not too far away, comfortable seat cushion, everything fits right away. Although the seat height is quite low at about 80 cm, people with 1.85 m and taller do not feel uncomfortable. The safe stand with both feet can also be done by smaller people without any problems, whereby manoeuvring is a bit more difficult than we would have expected because of the 195 kg weight (ready to drive). Even the passenger has enough space in our test model with extra pillion seat and the somewhat unorthodox grab handles bring safety. For a rather smaller machine, both the driver and the front passenger feel in good hands, even for the longer journey.