Why I bought a Royal Enfield Interceptor 650
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- In todays video I am going to show you my new bike, the Royal Enfield Interceptor 650 and why I bought it.
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If you enjoyed this video, also check out my first trip with the Royal Enfield Interceptor 650 and my surfboard to France, Spain, and Portugal: ua-cam.com/video/x2tLWVjNPfQ/v-deo.html
Haha I can identify with this so much. I'm 33 years and just got into motorcycles a year ago. Riding my own Interceptor 650 since 3 months now in and around Berlin /Germany. I put 4500km on it since that including a 2600km motorbike tour through the whole of Germany in 12 days together with my girlfriend as a pillion. Seriously this bike did it all for us. Up and down mountains, through forests with gravel roads and all of this fully loaded with side bags, fuel tank bag and a massive bagpack strapped behind my girlfriend. All of this worked perfectly for us. Every time we stopped the 60+ generation came up to us and initiated a conversation which was great. Happy to see more young people with a taste for these modern classics @FreeMilesMC
Huge Congrats!! Welcome to the retro classic club. Prepare to be forever a magnet for every 60+ year old biker in a 20km radius 😝 can't wait for your next trip ✊🏽🏍️💨
Haha yes that’s so true ☺️
Had a GT 650 for 3 years. Brilliant bike. Only sold it because I moved to the Philippines. At your age, I was riding a Honda CX500. Similar HP to the Enfield, but shaft drive. Both are wonderful touring bikes.
I just passed my licensing class this weekend and plan on saving up for the same bike. Absolutely love everything about it.
I'm not a biker myself but I love the oldschool design of the Royal Enfields! If I ever get my license I'd also buy one!
They are very great also for new riders ☺️
Beauty bike Miles! Pumped for you! 🤘🏻
I recently took a 3000 mile trip on my RE 650. Spent many hours riding in the rain, the bike never missed a beat. It's a very reliable touring bike.
Great video, I have same bike and surf too. I do my own servicing and it's proved to be reliable {12000miles). I remember seeing a surf rack on a bike for the first time back in the seventies,always fancied trying it but never did, so it's great to see you succeeding in your latest travel videos.
Good to see somebody younger being a bit unconventiona too , I love your honesty and how you are not afraid to show what a pain in the arse travelling in all weather's on a bike can be sometimes, also your surf footage is very much in line with how the surf is here in the UK, keep on keeping on ! 👍
Thank you for this nice comment. I actually would love to go surfing in the uk and in Ireland at some point ☺️
Thank you and congrats on new bike. Have a beer!
Thank you, I will definitely enjoy that beer in my tour after a long day of filming ☺️
You had me at "put a surfboard on a motorcycle." I'm here for the ride, you mad lad!
Nice video brother
Its a best machine made by RE
What a coincidence! The Royal Enfield Road Show made a stop near my hometown two days ago, so I had the opportunity to ride both the Continental GT and the Interceptor. While the Conti was a lot of fun, it directly put me into hooligan mode… aggressive riding position, nice sound, plenty of fun in the city. The Interceptor, however, is a totally different animal, although the bikes are technically almost identical. Relaxed riding position, same great engine and sound, comfortable and made for cruising. Can’t wait to see the new content from your next trip!
You definitely bought a beauty at a more than reasonable price, especially considering the touring extras. Have fun!
Yes normaly all the Extras are so expensive with new bikes
@@FreeMilesMC When I saw the thumbnail, I wanted to recommend adding leather panniers and a small leather underseat tool bag for maximum style, but you beat me to it with the surfboard rack 👍🏻 …
Congratulations free miles! Can't wait to see you traveling all around Europe with this beauty!❤
Thank you ☺️
I've had an Interceptor for 9 months and about 2,400 miles. I'm still happy with it. It checks quite a few boxes for me: it looks *great*, it sounds great, gets great gas mileage (about 55-60mpg), it handles well, there's lots of aftermarket stuff. It'll cruise all day at 75mph no problem. Power and torque are plenty for most purposes. The brakes work fine, the ergonomics are fine. And it has a likeable personality.
But it's not a bike I'd want to ride to Alaska on. Or even 200 miles. The reason being that the suspension and seat are kind of stiff and cobby. Around town it's fine but it wouldn't be fun riding it all day long. That and the right mirror vibrates. Also, it's hard to impossible to read the digital gas display in bright sunlight. Those are my only complaints.
I've got four bikes in the garage and the Interceptor is my main squeeze.
Lots of people buy a brand new bike without ever having a used one. You paid your dues in breakdowns on the Yamaha for sure, well justified!
Congratulations for your new bike, it’s beautiful!
I look forward to watching your adventures on it.
The next adventure is coming soon ☺️
So this is my third summer on a baker Express!
After ditching the seat the unbalanced Brazilian pirelli tires and a better battery I've had absolutely no issues!
I put a lot of modifications on it because that's just me. I made it into a cruiser before Royal Enfield came out with the super meteor cruiser. And I think I like mine better than theirs even though I haven't tried the super meteor yet!
I'll tell you one thing they did right for sure is that motor! The motor is put together like a Swiss watch and coupling it with a super smooth six-speed tranny what else can go wrong nothing! Nothing that matters because everything else is good. Some guys first thing they do is change the exhaust dude it's stainless steel and it sounds mellow...I like that. I don't really care for the loud pipes. The suspension and brakes are fine. Throw on a ranger windshield, relatively inexpensive and some handlebar risers, handguards, heated grips and she's a super capable cruiser. I should say "he" because I named him sleepy Joe after the president, because he gave me the down payment!
You will not regret owning this bike I guarantee!
PS I have a boat I named trumpy because he gave me the down payment for the boat it already capsized twice!
Congratulation on the new scoot. Nice to see you young guys staying away from the crotch rockets/cafe bikes. That tells me you wat to live into your thirties.....Lol! This bike won't get you into the trouble and fill up the graveyards with youth and exuberance. Be safe and have a ball!!
Yes 48 hp is enough for the street. I started on a proper crotch rocket from the early 90s and i have to say it thought me a lot of respect for motorcycle riding because the acceleration on those bikes is no joke.
@@FreeMilesMC Yeah, they’ll get your attention alright. Glad to you made it through that. I rode a INT650 last year and enjoyed it, still on my list for relaxed around town riding. Stay well.
the Interceptor looks so good and sounds good too! I hope to one day own one myself too. Hope you get to enjoy it before winter comes!
I definetly will, i Hope you can make that happen for yourself too I wanted one also now for over 2 years
I own one of these and love it. You will fall in love with it quickly!!! Looking forward to seeing some adventures
Bin mal gespannt was du zur Sitzbank sagst nach der ersten großen Tour. Ich persönlich find die super Meteor 650 sehr gelungen. Auf jedenfall viel Spaß und unfallfreie Fahrt mit deinem neuen Bike✌🏻
Hab direkt nach der Probefahrt auf eine touring Sitzbank gewechselt
Hey Miles, we met you in Germany at the gas station. with the surfboard attached to this bike. Nice video
yooo ich bin hyped auf deinen nächsten Trip surfing und Motorrad klingt echt spannend :))
Das freut mich zu hören. Viele modern Retro bike Werbekampagnen schneiden immer das Thema an sei es Royal enfield selbst, deus ex oder Triumph deswegen fand ich die Idee cool mal auszuprobieren wie realistisch das Ganze ist ☺️
Congratulations Miles and excellent choice!
Your 650 just oozes out character in all directions, enjoy 😉
Excellent choice for the motorcycle, you will surely have lots of fun on this bike!!
My first visit to your page, and I liked your video on the 650, gave me plenty of insight on the actual bike, thx for that, I am looking to buy my first bike and was debating on a touring bike or this 650, your video helps, I'll checkbout your surf video.
Definititly check out the touring Videos. À 10000 Kilometer Trip through Europe should have you all the info you Need ☺️
Great stuff! I would go for a Japanese bike if I were you, however the fact you got the Royal with so little milage and inside the waranty, it's a steal in this price. Safe journeys mate!
Less sensors and unnecessary stuff to fix.
And they look so great. My heart is all for the Retro look now ❤
G'day mate I've been riding 44 years. I personally think after all these years bikes are just bikes it's pretty hard to reinvent the wheel. Excellent choice buy what makes you happy 👍
Hey Miles, congratulations on your new buy, I can't wait to watch your new adventures! 🥳👍
Now what I have done this summer is I bought a second hand R1200RT from 2007 with 2500gbp and went on tour for 2 weeks in Europe, England-France-Belgium-Germany-Switzerland-Italy-Spain-France-England, all in all 3300miles/5500Km, it was absolutely amazing and the bike had 0 issues, I can say RT is an amazing bike, yes I did all the service by myself in the shed before leaving, but now I have 3 BMW bikes, K1200RS 2001, k1200LT 2002 and the newest acquired R1200RT 2007, I don't think I will ever buy another type, make, of a bike, because BMWs are amazing...my own opinion of course.
Cheers mate, ride safe !🙂
Yes they are amazing bikes I would love to try one out at some point. Also in case my channel gets bigger I think the chances to ask bmw for sponsoring us probably the best because they always seem quit open to stuff like that. So maybe that happens at some point in the far future ☺️
nice, surely you will like it. (i can see 15mm of the fork legs showing on top.. lifting that + a bit playing with rear shocks + some 80/20 tyres and a proper preloads for luggage.. it can be just enough offroadization for touring.)
Yes that’s the same thing that I thought ☺️
Great choice. And with the best available color scheme. You will not regret it 👍
Cool bike! Love to see you take long trips on this one
I Hope so☺️
Congrats with the new bike !!! Love those Enfields 😉
Yes it’s truly has become an amazing brand those last few years
Had one ,made 50.000 km in 2 Years.
Great bike,love the motor, but take care for rust, .
I'm a daily rider,summer and winter,and this bike definitely dont like the salty austrian roads in winter. But besides this you will have a great time with this bike!
And many talks with older guys 😉
Rust...😮 no good....
GOOD CALL👍🏻
Nice choice, real blessing and very reliable.
Welcome to the RE family 🤣👍 Love the Interceptor, except for its stock seat - hard as a brick (which is why I got my Kawa W800 instead). Love my RE Classic 500. I can confirm from my own experience that REs are reliable machines 👍 Wouldn't want to ride anything else anymore but my two sweethearts 😁 Ich wünsche dir verdammt viel Spaß mit dem neuen Mopped 😀
the xj needs cleaning up and mounting on your wall at home as a reminder of how this all started and for memories.
Definitely considering one, especially with a chrome tank. But I'll need to figure out where to buy tubeless spoked rims for it coz I don't trust tubed tyres.
3 years and I haven't had a tire problem except the major tire problems not going to be the rims. The big tire problem I had were the Brazilian pirellis were unbalanced garbage. Throw on a nice set of Michelins and you'll be fine. Don't forget bikers road for nearly a hundred years with tube tires! Just make sure you have decent tires.
These two models have already been launched as factory standard with tubeless tyres and alloy wheels by Royal Enfield. Look it up!!!
Nice bike dude.. congrats.. Pete
Nice bike..looking forward to seeing more trips with it
The next trip is starting soon ☺️
totally off-topic, but I like the ring you are wearing!
Good choice, my fellow rider!
Thank you ☺️
A very good bike for the home mechanic to maintain. As it's oil cooled, use the best oil available and change it regularly - don't skimp on this. Lock and nut valves will need frequent inspection but it's a simple job. Don't use a pressure washer on this bike! Frequent use of XCP Clear Coat or similar will be needed to keep it looking good.
Well as you said, when a good deal is put right in front of you there is no need to spend days searching for a unicorn.
I'm not a watersports guy, but warm location with surfing in a beautiful area - how about Croatia?
Really nice bike. Congratulations.
Very nice motorcycle. Very good choice because it's your choice. Keep it up!
Motorcycling used to be an affordable mode of transport. Royal Enfield has brought this back. I stuck some Scorpion cans on mines just to increase the volume a little bit 😂
so you bought the interceptor at the price of a himalayan - yeah no shit bro who wouldn't have done that :D
good point with the on-road focus for adv in europe. plus every bike is an offroad bike if you're brave enough ;) it's certainly enough ground clearance for 95% of the trails
great looking bike. hope you have an excellent time with that. greetings from a himalayan owner from a place where the paved to offroad ratio is inverted to the one of europe :)
Have you ever considered a Triumph Bonneville or speed twin as replacement bike since those bikes have similar retro vintage looks as Interceptor but with obviously more power and more sophisticated electronic on it
Congratulations 🎊 🎊 🎊
Thank you ☺️
congrat!! Good luck for future :)
Avoid salt water spray when you take it surfing. Wash it thoroughly when you leave the beach.
I had my mind set on a chrome one but this colour scheme is awesome too and now I can’t make up my mind 😢
Congratulations! Havent seen your channel before but found this video as I'm currently also looking to swap from an rather older bike to this exact same beauty as yours. In January i got myself a bmw r1150r as it ticked all the boxes on my list. Now the rather high fuel consumption leads me to think about the interceptor. I'm looking forward to see more videos about this bike, you've got a new follower. Gruß Tobias
Thank you I hope you like the following content.
Grüße zurück momentan sind Royal enfield interceptors nicht so teuer wegen dem miesen Sommer und weil ksr der vertreiber für die enfields hier pleite gegangen ist in Deutschland also ist jetzt ein guter Moment eine zu kaufen
@FreeMilesMC interessant.
finanziell ist es bei mir leider noch zu früh, müsste auch mein aktuelles Motorrad erst verkaufen. Vor ein paar Jahren habe ich mich in die 500er Bullet verliebt, als ich zum ersten mal eine royal enfield gesehen habe. Bin sie dann in Indien für ein paar tage gefahren und stelle mir auf Dauer die interceptor alltagstauglicher vor. Vor allem weil es zwei zylinder sind. Gucke mir mal noch ein paar deiner anderen videos an, du warst ja schon viel unterwegs wie ich sehe.
@Tobi-cz6yq die bleiben bestimmt auch noch ne zeitlang billig. Ja es ist viel auf meinem Kanal schon zu sehen an großen Touren nach Iceland, morocco und Italien und auch noch ein paar andere Videos rund ums Thema Motorrad ☺️
@@Tobi-cz6yq und am Wochenende kommt das erste Tour Video mit der interceptor ☺️
@@FreeMilesMC viel Spaß dabei, ich freu mich drauf und bereite mein Motorrad schon mal zum Verkaufen vor ;)
Congrats!
Thank you ☺️
Your YT subs will boost now with this bike.
I Hope so ☺️
Wilkommen im Club, ich fahre auch eine Inter650. 🎉
Nice bike, enjoy!!
Thank you
Congrats on the new bike Miles! I'm thinking of riding from Ireland to portugal next year for a surf trip too. I will be renting a board though.😅
Thats sounds like a great Trip, bring a lot of Time I am already realising I would more time than I have
Also you can see some nice spots on the way
I am very fortunate I am a secondary school teacher. I am off for 3 months during the summer. Should have plenty of time. Though I am married so I can't go away for too long😅
@@jonno303 that is very lucky I am away for 4 weeks and it’s stressful as fuck right now with the filming and no waves already for quit some time
Also looking forward to your next trip. It is great motivation for us to see how you do things on a tight budget.👍
Congratulations 🙌 ❤ … nice bike & good value for money ✨ … just other tires & maybe some protection & ready to go ,,, weight ?
You can scramble it, build a bash plate and put some knobby tyres on it. Considering some of the places you took the old bike, a scrambler would be good for you
It’s also definitely somthing that I would be willing to do to the bike at some point ☺️
Nice bike choice. Will you be doing some restoration videos of the XJ?
Another good reason, it looks awesome.
That is absolutely right ☺️
Congrats Bro! This is a beautiful bike. Have many safe miles on the new ride. Looking forward to the surf trip. Is it legal to use the surfboard mount in Germany???
Love this bike
Me too ☺️
GOD DAMN yes! I want this bike so bad too!
It is truly great. Right now and the next 12-18 month is probably the best moment to get one economics wise. Because of the cost of living crisis dropping the bike prices for quit new used bikes. And also bike distributors for Royal enfild like ksr in Germany and Austria going bankrupt and also some similar situation in the uk
@@FreeMilesMC man this video was it. I'm waiting for my paid for insurance to run out this december and i'm selling my current bike and buying this one after that. It's your fault
I think you'll pick up more subs taking that bike on adventures.
Do you think leaving all the modern features that other bikes offer for the interceptor is worth it ? Asking as I am planning to buy it. Cheers!
Cool bike... Congrats.
I do like it's smaller brother, the Himalayan. Joe Ryan, one of my local aussie UA-camrs is doing a bit of a lap around Australia on one.
Thanks, yes i was considering That one too but i once Made à Video on the scram 411 witch is super close to the Himalayan and was not really a fan at least for riding in my home country
Cool. That’s not too bad one. But what about Honda Rebel 300 or 500? Are they really more expensive than RE? I’ve got myself Rebel, because it’s same price ish but way more advanced. Particularly its weight.
yes its good bike and its cheap. though on freeways, may feel wanting more bhp. and those tubed tyres when punctures on tour, god help us.
Many many congratulations ❤❤ I hope you will be come Pakistan and the ride on new motor cycle 😀
Mmm in the reliability area on touring or off road those tubed tyres are a bit of a liability, tubeless would be better 😊
Great video…..
If RE made a Himalayan-like bike with ~50 hp, the thing would sell like hot buns in Europe!
You got yourself a very pretty looking machine, a real time machine. 🤗
Did you see the spy shots? RE has a 450 water cooled Dual Sport / ADV in the making. Should put out around 40-50 hp if the rumors are correct.
@@papajulietromeo-650 So far Enfield failed to get real horsepowers out off smaller engines. If that rumour is true, they will explode in sales! That would be an absolutely perfect bike for many many thousands of European motorcyclists! 🤩
@@zweispurmopped Yeah, the air/oil cooled thumpers, designed for the hot climate in their home country, aren’t the most powerful units. Hopefully the new water cooled engine will be more on par with their competitors.
A Scram 450 with around 45 hp and less than 190 kg would be nice… but it seems as if they also want to release a scrambler based on the 650 twin.
@@papajulietromeo-650 That engine needs to go into the Himalayan frame before anything else! Imagine a simpleton steel frame bike like the Himy with a decent 45hp engine and actual potential to dig through mud, sand and climb mountains! That would fill the gap the Trans Alp left open! That coming at the price of a good second hand Tans Alp would be a huge hit!
@@zweispurmopped google Himalayan 452 … the Himi will be the first to receive the new engine. Seems to be more like 40 hp, but still… if it puts out decent torque, 40 hp should be enough.
Good choice
How far did the xj go before it gave in?
nice!
great
I want to carry my 9.6 longboard on my Honda Hornet.😄
Yes that would be cool I also wish I could have a longboard or live closer to the beach in the first place
will you try to fix your old bike though as a project or just write it off?
I will try to fix it in winter and also try to refeature it in the future
Indian people love Royal Enfield bikes
I love mine, but do yourself a favour and clear all the rubbish factory dielectric Grease out of all the connectors and relays and replace it with decent stuff. That's been the only causes of issues with mine. Oh, and bin the charcoal filter.
VERY GOOD CHOICE....I PERSONALY, I WOULD NOT PREFER TO BUY A ROYAL ENFIELD BIKE,WITH THESE MONEY.GERMAN BIKE OR JAPANESE BIKE,USED.....HAVE FUN,RIDE SAFE
My choice is also interceptor
650 is good....350 is not enough Power for Mountain Roads etc.
Yes you are absolutly Right. The 350 Engine is nice for some cruising and works very well in the Meteor but it’s just not enough
nice bike
Jesus is that you
So main reason you bought it was because it was the cheapest option. Not very inspiring story