Hyosung Aquila GV250 vs Royal Enfield Interceptor 650

Touring is becoming a fashion among Indian motoring enthusiasts. And why should it not? We have vast expanse of open lands, biodiversity worth experiencing and some really good roads that are connected by many miserable ones with the difficulty level equivalent of playing Ping Pong with a Chinese national, giving riders a sense of achievement like no other.  Royal Enfield and Harley-Davidson have been capitalising on this pretty well for a while now and it is time that few others get to ride the wave, even if that won’t dent the sales of the big two. Hyosung is the front runner among the alternative premium motorcycle brands for cruisers and this time we test their new entry-level model, the Aquila 250.

Here, we bring our detailed road test review of the 2023 Royal Enfield Interceptor 650.

Now, the two motorcycles, although based on the same platform with different bodystyles, offer similar abilities- or do they? To find out, we rode both back-to-back to tell you which of the two would better suit your needs and which one should you pick.

We recently received the Apollo Tramplr STs and found them to be a set of well-thought-out motorcycle tyres. Be it in terms of build, design or purpose, these seemed to check all the right boxes. So now, we tested them in real-world conditions...