MCN awarded this model 5 Stars in it's recent review - The Royal Enfield Meteor 650's twin-cylinder motor is the star of the show in terms of riding satisfaction, for this is a middleweight motorcycle that thinks big. It’s been intelligently developed to be all things to all riders, so that the less experienced can ride around town all day in fourth gear, and the hyper-flexible engine will let them do so without any hiccups or transmission snatch.
The Super Meteor’s well-proven engine is carried as a fully-stressed component in an all-new steel spine frame jointly developed by Royal Enfield’s UK Technology Centre at Bruntingthorpe and RE subsidiary Harris Performance, and incorporates a new cylinder head mount for additional stiffness.
Showa is now the suspension supplier for Royal Enfield’s twins, and the Super Meteor comes with an upside-down fork for the first time on any RE model, a non-adjustable 43mm Big Piston item carried at a 27.6° rake with 118.50mm of trail, offering 120mm of wheel travel.
At the rear, the extruded steel swingarm delivering a rangy 1500mm wheelbase carries twin Showa shocks, with 5-step preload adjustment and 101mm of travel. There’s a 19-inch forged aluminium front wheel and 16-inch rear, shod with Indian supplier CEAT’s new Zoom Cruz tubeless tyres specially developed for the Super Meteor duo.
Braking is supplied by the same single 320mm front disc as on the earlier 650 models, but a much larger 300mm rear brake disc (up from 240mm), both gripped by twin-piston calipers from Brembo’s Indian subsidiary ByBre, with twin-channel Bosch ABS.
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