My youngest son and his partner, both riding Himmy's, recently covered 15, 000 miles around Europe, much of it off-road. A mere thirty-five countries spanning Gibraltar to Finand and a lot of places in between. That little journey took just four months. They did their own servicing and tyre changes en route; the only mechanical failure was a broken (after-market) pannier frame, which was easily welded up by a local mechanic. Job done. Both bikes were 'dropped' loads of times but, hey! Pick up the bike, and it will run! Both bikes are still in use, one of them still doing a daily commute totalling sixty-five miles; in all (UK) weather! Himalayan 411, a great no-nonsense motorcycle, a future classic! Love and peace.

Great review and I think you are spot on! I’ve put 1400km on my new Himalayan and have had such fun just exploring the many back roads in my area. I also ride solo, so going fast is not the point, getting home in one piece while just enjoying the ride is what I’m after. Cost/smile ratio of the Himalayan is really great. Nice to see you’ve gotten 20,000 reliable km’s so far. Looking forward to your next adventure!

I have 19,800 kms on my Himy. Your reflections are exactly on point. Many other reviews call this a "beginners" Adv bike. I call it my Regressor Adv. Going back to basics and simplicity. I get as many smiles per mile off of this motorcycle as any I have owned in my 50+ years of riding. In a world gone crazy and prices going up on everything I am happy to get on this little thumper and take off on solo adventures.

Just got a 4 year old Himalayan It's a cross between a tractor & a bicycle. I love it.

My gosh, the framing and overall looks of the standing shot are beautiful!

Joe, I love your honest, no-nonsense assessment of the bike. In fact, your trip already confirms the capabilities of this bike. Thank you!

One of the best reviews I've seen on the Himalayan! For me, it's a perfect entry level bike to learn basic offroad skills and have a great time. I refer to mine as the old fergy tractor of the bike world ☺️ Perfect to build confidence and explore our beautiful country. I had mine lowered (I'm 5'4) so I can flat foot and we've done some pretty amazing off-road stuff. Thanks for the review and can't wait to see where you go next!

One of the best reviews. Well done!

I've watched loads of (and loved) your travelogues and I think this video is, as expected, an informed, really well-balanced, honest review. Many thanks for your efforts, in content, in videoing this and in editing. A solid, polished effort that other channels could learn a lot from. Kudos mate! Happy travels! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

enjoying your videos. no idea how i found them but glad i did. i love Royal Enfield, i have an Interceptor and love it but love the Himalayan. Great stuff, keep posting. Living vicariously thru you!!

Good sensible video, and decent build quality. Enjoyed it!

I was looking for this from you yesterday!!! Thankyou.

You nailed this review! I think you really understand what this bike is about. I recently got mine and it was for the exact same reasons you explained. Look forwards to more adventures .

Hello Joe, thank you for keeping it real once again, great review, there a great bike as they are bog standard and honest bike. Thanks again and keep the vids coming.

Thank you for making this video. I've been thinking about buying one of these and your video may have pushed me the last little bit to pull the trigger.

Great review of a truly great bike ! Cheers.

Very well put together, thanks for the review

Great realistic inspirational video! Thanks fella🤘I’m getting one

Great review, thanks Joe

This was an amazing review… thanks mate big love from Brisbane/ Redcliffe 😊😊😊

Great video and totally enjoyed. Informative and views much appreciated. Thanks.

Thanks Joe enjoyed your review🙏

GREAT REVIEW MATE!!!!!!GREETINGS FROM CHILE!!!!!!

Hi Joe, just bought a Himi, and this is really helpful!

These are great little bikes and grossly underrated! Stay upright mate 🙂

Awesome review bro. I’m also an explorer of oz on my himmy. Love the life. 👍 great series mate.

Fantastic review by a rider with a riding style I can relate to. Thanks for sharing your experience with the bike.:)

And I love my " agriculrural" KLR for many of the same reasons Joe. Nice review, and we wait with baited breath for your next adventure. :-)

Great review of a terrific little bike

Great review and totally agree.

Thanks for a great review, I have a trip to Cape York coming up on my v strom 1000, love the bike, but it’s that time in life to downsize, a your review certainly makes the hymalayan look like the replacement.👍

Thank you for the information Joe. I love the fact that it is an explorer bike. I rode years ago and really like the Royal Enfield Himalayan. Also all your videos are great.

Great review - nice simple bike - like the comparison to a tractor it just keeps on keeping on - putts around everywhere Thanks for the time you are putting into your channel to show us great places of this beautiful country Thanks Dave

All the same reasons I got myself one plus love the look of it. Looking forward to seeing the next adventure.

Love it! Great review. My only motorcycle is a 125cc Honda Grom currently. But I'm ready to move up and the Himalayan just seems to do everything I would want while still looking unique. I just love that it looks like a bike that rolled off of the Indiana Jones movie set.

Thanks Joe for your honesty. I had one of these for five years. Did similar mileage. Loved the bike and it suited my style of exploring. Had a few mechanical issues but not to fazed by them. Hired them in Morocco and Mongolia and just loved riding in those countries. Perfect for being up on the pegs. Looking forward to hearing/seeing more of your Himalayan adventures. Annie

An excellent honest review, doing your adventuring slowly and enjoyably. I agree with your every word. Cheers mate.

👍 no nonsense bike way to go mate nothing wrong with that ripper riding beaut 💪

Great review. The best bike is the one the rider can afford and be on the road. Chasing the "perfect" bike is an illusion that cost time wasted that never can be recuperated. Thanks for sharing

Good honest review Joe and it seems the right tool for the job in hand which is a bit of adventure at a leisurely pace, I don’t actually own a Himalayan but Will probably be down sizing in the near future and the Himalayan could be on my radar as a future bike and as you say you’ve got to take them for what their are it’s certainly no race horse more of a good dependable donkey that will always get you home , so looking forward to your next adventure 👍

Thanks for the review mate! You just convinced me to buy one for a roadtrip around the US with my wife, I am old school mechanic so I don't really know much about the new electronics in modern bikes, and this bike looks perfect for the road trip!

Hi Joe. You're doing what I did in 92. I took a year and did the grand tour all over Australia. Brings back memories. You know what you're doing but be careful. Thanks for videos. I just might buy a Himalayan and do it all again. Cheers from 🇨🇦. Ray.

Great review mate spot on like the 300 these bikes are all about trouble free and budget exploration and allow you to do that without reliability and extreme expense so you can just ride and not fiddle with the bike all the time.

Hi Joe, I just watched your review of the Royal Enfield Himalayan. A great review and agree these simple bikes are really great value for money. I have a Royal Enfield Meteor 350cc and just love the simple mechanics of the bike. Totally agree with you on just get out there and explore 👍 Really enjoying your videos and looking forward to the next episode and adventure. Seen all the videos to date....

Fantastic review. You covered more topics than most. I prefer listening to riders who’ve had the bike for a while and used it properly and in different terrain. No good listening to someone who basically just rides it on weekends or to the shops. I’m getting the itch to ride again. My first bike was a 1978 Yamaha XT500. I learned to ride on that bike and after passing my test I rode from Durban to Johannesburg, only stopping for fuel and food. It was a beautiful bike. Don’t know why they don’t still make an updated version today. Anyway, the Himalayan has got lots of style, it looks good and performance seems great as an all rounder. Like you, I’d prefer it to be a more powerful motor. But unlike you; I’m still dreaming about it. Thanks for a great review, I really enjoyed it. I wish you years of fun on your bikes. Cheers from the UK😊

Great review Joe and spot on with your assessment. Sure, they’ve got their limitations, but the price/mile (and smile!) ratio just can’t be beat if relaxed exploring is your thing. It’s like the old saying, horses for courses.

Best review of Himalayan

Nice review, mate! The other one too, with 40k. Simple things are the best in life. Sorry for all the other folks who never get that.

Thanks Joe for this. What you are saying, I agree with. Will be riding one by the end of this month.

I agree with others on here. A straight forward honest review. The REH has just taken me on a 888 mile camping trip around south west Wales . The trip involved a few 'gree lanes' to which the Himalayan just soaked up. A great review of a great utilitarian motorcycle. Summed up perfectly. Nice one Joe. 😊

Wow. Simple beautiful and on point.

I hired one recently for a bike ride through the Himalayas for about 10 days. I absolutely loved it. Brought back some nice memories from my younger days. I can’t wait for the next trip. Dec hopefully. Looking to buy either this or the scram. Mid life crisis… bring it on. Great content mate. Loving your adventures.

Great review mate. I pick mine up in a few days! Cheers

Definitely an awesome in depth review 👏 Pretty much got me decided on a himalayan! Ive been looking for a lighter weight adventure style bike, thats simple, reliable, and easy to service

What a great review. Matching the bike to the intended use make all kinds of sense. Although, to be honest, I just got what was available, rather than what was likely closer to optimal.

I'm going to look at one soon, you got me really looking forward to it brother! 😎👊💯💯💯

Good review. Just back from a few days in the Flinders Ranges on my Himalayan and only dropped it once, centre stand caught on fencing wire. I can pick it up and I'm 65yo. Cheers

Detailed review till date❤

great review

Great review spot on, beats me why anyone wants to ride a 275kg GS at $40k

Nice review! Reflects my views of my 2022 Himalayan. I've now put on over 12,000 km in Argentina. Half pavement, half NOT! I sold my beloved Indian Vintage and got this little tractor. Quite a change and not many regrets. I did put on the 16T front pinion and that was a game changer for me. Every gear is longer, and longer legs on the highway for very cheap.

Nicely presented. Exploring is also what I enjoy.

I think they've made a very nice looking bike. Very balanced looking. A lot of the adventure bikes have a very radical look to them. Simple by design, our BMW airhead logo.

Fantastic review.

I just got back from a month long ride up the Himalayas on one of these. wouldn't want any other bike... it was perfect for the job, it'll literally take you anywhere

Spot on the money Joe. Too many reviews trying to sell big dual purpose bikes as enduro machines (a clever marketing ploy by manufacturers). I like your realistic and practical reporting 👍

Good and useful review.

I recently did a similar review I guess you’d say. Explained why I picked the Royal Enfield Himalayan as well as my little Honda Monkey. You and I seem to feel very similar and what the REH is all about. It seems to everything “well” not better or worse then the others but “well”… and that was what I needed. Loved watching your adventures and I don’t know what camera you use but MAN😮 does it have a great picture. Thanks for your time, I’ll be waiting for the next one. While making my own 😊. Willie

Great philosophy on bike riding! And you are spot on: If your philosophy/expectations/wishes on what bike riding is supposed to be begs for speed, power, gadgets, the 411 is probably the wrong bike. But with the right mindset, it's a gem. BTW...The brakehandles have also been changed, haven't they. I have changed mine to something like yours, because the original ones demands bigger hands for optimal handling.

Thank you for the review Im going to setup a test ride

Just traded my BMW for a 2023 Himalayan. I didn’t smile this much on my BMW!

Good review

Buy yourself several tins of sardines. Easy to store and very nutritious. Thanks for the honest review!

7:00 about standing up. I just bought this bike as my first bike. And while ive only been on a bike two days since i bought it (and did my first ever ride about). It felt so natural and easy to just stand and ride the bike.

i had a bmw 1150GSA and did some touring, but the astronomical amount of money I had to spend on repairs along the way I could have quite easily bought 2 himalayans that would simply just have worked... Plus it was such a heavy bastard it was near impossible to lift it on your own... I really want a himalayan, but I am a large fellow at 1.97m tall and weighing in at 110kg, so practicality and comfort would likely prevent me from enjoying the long trips on one of these... I would love it for all the reasons you love it though... simplicity, durability, practicality and economy if exploring is your thing... Unfortunately there arent many bigger bikes that can promise all those benefits for the larger lads.

Hi Joe. a good honest review mate. I hired a Himalayan in New Delhi and headed into the mountains; I liked it a lot. It did everything i asked of it and more. I probably would have lowered the gearing for a better crawl speed so as not to slip tjhe clutch as much and rarely hit 80kmh on back roads so top speed was not an issue but who wants to fly by great scenery? The bike was comfortable, confidence inspiring and 'easy' to ride. I wouldn't hesitate to buy one, and am trying to work out how to do so in India to do even more mountain riding

Love From India ♥

Great wrap on the RE Joe, well done mate. Can't wait for more in the future.

Being close to fossil age myself I thought common sense and rational NON EGOIC reasoning was dead. Apparently not! Respect Joe

Great review. I agree, but the Himalayan is my first and only bike, nothing to compare it with...... Tuna tin for side stand enlarger!

Whatever club you belong to, I'm also a member. I opted for a ktm 390 adv but am very happy with my decision to go smaller, though being a tech head I wanted the mod cons. Never mind that most of the mods are 'cons' (really, what the heck is traction control doing on such a small bike). But its fly-by-wire throttle has meant I can add speed based cruise control which makes the bike feel like a much bigger one as you cruise up hill and down dale at unvarying speeds. Being a solo rider mostly I also wanted something I could pick up easily when exploring off tarmac. I'm pretty sure I would have been just as happy getting a Himalayan or a KLR 650, but I've got the ktm and am quite happy enough. The main thing is I'm riding in a sustainable way. Hope to meet you on the road Joe.

Such a clear and concice video, not overtop. im thinking about getting one soon, not a fan of the looks of the 450 i think the 411 looks a lot nicer =)

Thank you 👍 brother 🙏

I've got a 650 royal enfield interceptor , ok , not the fastest bike on road ...but ....it's half the price ( and horse power !!!) Of a triumph , really great bike for sight seeing, ok for a leisurely speed two up .After watching your video i'm now thinking of getting the 411 Himalayan for myself (have got some excellent wooded area's near where i live ). Peace out ✌

Good review, the Himalayan 450cc should come out this year :)

EBC HH cintered pads will bring the braking to an acceptable level. I did swap the front calipers out for a set off a 2015 harley 750. I can activate the antilock system on pavement now.

As they say, KISS. I'm off on my first trip tomorrow, Brisbane, Kingaroy, Monto, Gin Gin/Bundaberg. I don't know when you are off on your next trip, but RE has an event here in Brisbane on 17/18 June, I have signed up for it. Should be fun. Looking forward to your next adventure.

That Silver Himalayan have been on my list for long, In India Yezdi adventure came close to appeal to me, it looks same and has great braking with superb top end, but lacks low end torque, now eagerly waiting for Himalayan 450 or else will get 411

Good video sir

Thanks!

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Good on you thanks

Where can I order the small side tanks? Thank you, great review, adressing all the points.

Very good review! And you nailed the prupose of thie bike too. How often do you change the oil? Does it use oil between survices?

I use 2 handlebar mirror brackets on each lower engine bar and mount folding foot pegs on them on my Himalayan. Got them from ali express.

Great review, lots of helpful detail! Just wondering what year your Himalayan is?

I rode a rented Himalayan in Sikkim (upper Himalayas) for a week and while it did fine, I think it was badly maintained and that ruined my experience. The brakes didn’t stick, the rear tyre was worn out and kept slipping on Hairpin turns, headlights didn’t work apart from main beam and when roads were good it didn’t have enough power to rev it out. The new Himalayan just launched and I think it’ll be priced well, so I think it’s gonna be a winner!

You can tilt the screen forward by moving the back screws to the holes above and it does give you a little higher wind protection. Worth a try and costs nothing but a little time.

Cool.

Great Vid, what year model is your bike? Thanks