Enfield offers retro trials

Demand from UK riders has prompted Royal Enfield to go intor production with a trials-styled Bullet Sixty-5 after previewing it at last year’s NEC bike show.

The UK special is based on the perennial 500cc Bullet, the Sixty-5 T has been equipped with off-road pattern ‘knobbly’ tyres, alloy mudguards and bash plate, sprung single saddle, wide bars, up-swept exhaust and a petrol tank re-sprayed to give an alloy finish.

While cosmetically an off-road machine of the 1950’s, this bike has two key differences. Unlike classic Bullets, fitted with the pre-unit “One up, three down” gearbox on the right hand side, the Sixty-5 T has the new gearbox, with the one-down, four-up pattern operated on the left side of the machine familiar to most of today’s riders. It also has an electric starter.

The Sixty-5T sells for £3,908- on the road, weighs 160kg and makes 24bhp at 5400rpm.