Here’s A Detailed Look At Royal Enfield Hunter 350’s Retro Variant: Image Gallery
The roadster’s base variant up close via images
[UPDATE: Royal Enfield has launched the Hunter 350. Full details in our launch story]
Royal Enfield has revealed the Hunter 350, and as we had reported earlier, it comes in three variants. While we did give you a detailed look at the higher variant called Metro, here’s the base Retro variant up close and what it features via images.
The Hunter 350 Retro will be the most affordable Royal Enfield Bike based on the J-series platform. It will not be available in any international markets and will be sold only in India.
While the Metro and Metro Rebel variants come in a wide range of colour options, the Retro variant will only be available in two single-tone colour schemes: black and silver.
It gets a simple ‘Royal Enfield’ stickering in red colour on either side of the fuel tank. It also gets a slim bronze/gold pinstripe running across either side of the fuel filler cap.
Unlike the ribbed seat on the Metro variant, the base variant flaunts a more simple-looking unit, however. Even the grab rail on the Retro is a more simple tubular metal unit.
The taillight on the Retro variant skimps on LEDs and makes do with halogen units. The front and rear turn indicators are old-school and rectangular in shape, borrowed from the Himalayan, as opposed to the Metro’s circular units.
In terms of hardware, the Retro variant gets a disc up front and a drum at the rear for braking, paired with single-channel ABS.
Unlike the alloy wheels on the Metro, the base variant rolls on spoke wheels wrapped in slimmer 100/120 tubed rubbers as opposed to the 110/140 tubeless tyres in the higher variant.
The Metro variant flaunts a semi-digital instrument cluster borrowed from the Royal Enfield Scram 411. The Retro, on the other hand, gets a much smaller and more basic-looking semi-digital instrument cluster. It also misses out on the Tripper navigation pod, even as an accessory.
The switchgear on the Retro is more basic and similar to the one found on the old-gen Classic 350.
Apart from these differences, the engine, frame and suspension are shared by all three variants.
The Hunter 350 is all set to launch today and will go up against the likes of Jawa Forty Two, Honda CB350RS, TVS Ronin, and also the upcoming Triumph-Bajaj 350 bike.
Royal Enfield Hunter 350 User Reviews
- Royal enfield the build machineMy first preference is short height bike because it's easy to handle it plus maintenance was so reliable. As per compare to the other with the same segment Hunter is far better then others. I really love to ride royal enfield bikes. For the city riding you love it like handling was very amazing plus throttle response is very amazing. For the lobby route you can adjust your seat or add some cusion over the seat or buy the new seat. For the city purpose you can buy this bike only. As I have a classic 350 and metor. l really like to ride hunter only because that machine is more powerfull as compared to other RE machine like the engine sound and silencer sound without changing any parts it shows the old version one.Read More4 7
- Excellent City and HighwayVery comfortable bike for daily riding and long trips. Seat comfort is excellent, riding position is relaxed and city traffic me handle karna easy hai. Engine smooth aur refined hai. Build quality, fit and finish premium feel dete hain. Overall performance, mileage, comfort aur looks ke hisab se Hunter 350 is a great value for money motorcycle.Read More27 26
- My great experience as a BikerI'm really enjoying this bike and very much value for money, my suggestion for everyone, who're purchasing new bike, is that you must try this bike, it is very nuch good in all aspects and I think it's value for money. I'm really exctided and enjoying the ride of my new bike, It's really smooth and low maintenance cost will love to share much more memories of it, but as I have already ridden 5000 km plus so I can be pretty sure. yes, I would definitely recommend this to everyone, just have a ride and decide to buy, get a good ride try few bike and I'm sure you will find this value for money and feel preety happy with this decision.Read More1 2
- After won this motercycleRun smoothly in highway and sound also coming good after all is good for riding and comfortable for body posture no back pain after ride and seats are comfortable to ride long route feel like nothing but enjoying ride and it was good. Comfortable for long ride and mileage is also good for comparing any motorcycle and no back pain after travelling long route ride any type of rout it's satisfied and speed was also too awesome like super bike. If your are think for this is to great for your wallet happy no for any issues was turn day by day it's was very good price for investment for your lifestyle price was to satisfied for thinking for this type of motorcycle.Read More4 1
- Hunter 350 is a hunter . Best handeling .Cheap and best in category. Colour is good, service is good, company is good, good torque, great in mileage. People trust says it all. Go and take a test drive so that you get clarity why this is best. Bike is good. Mileage is 27. Seat is not comfortable. Sometime under 20 speed automatically switches off. I have get it done 3 times for this yet issue is not resolved. After speed of 80 it accelerates slowly. Reaching 110 speed is tough, after that is does not move much further. Yes for sure. Its good to start. If you have not ride a heavy bike before, this is best to start with. In this price range, there are many bikes but the royal enfield fails all companies. Service is also good.Read More10 10