Jul 01, 2016 04:51 PM
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Royal Enfield has launched a replacement color - Squadron Blue - on the Classic five hundred vary of motorcycles, priced at one, 86, 688(on-road, Delhi). The new shade has been impressed by the Indian Air Force and may be a tribute by maker for its established history with the militia. The new Squadron Blue Classic five hundred variant is obtainable for booking across India.
Unlike the Despatch edition that received a two-tone color scheme, the Royal Enfield Squadron Blue Classic five hundred gets a clean matte blue end and takes inspiration from the post war style of the Royal Enfield motorcycles, while holding the trendy underpinnings. except for the new color scheme, the special Classic five hundred gets no mechanical changes with power returning from a similar 499cc single-cylinder Twinspark engine tuned for twenty seven.2bhp of power and forty one.3Nm of force. The motor is mated to a 5-speed transmission.
Royal Enfield's association with the militia dates back to the planet Wars, wherever the motorbike was used extensively by country Arm. The bike maker additionally received its 1st ever order from the Indian army in 1952 for 800 motorcycles, whereas producing in India commenced from 1955 and has been a daily provider to the Indian Army ever since. The Indian Air Force additionally started the utilization of Royal Enfield motorcycles within the Nineteen Fifties and has been a lot of popularly been utilized by the Air Force Poice.
Speaking on the new Squadron Blue color, Mr. Rudratej Singh, President, Royal Enfield aforesaid, "The Classic five hundred Squadron Blue is tribute to RE's war time presence N association with the militia. we have a tendency to needed a variant with a real militia, Royal Enfield turned to the Indian Air Force for inspiration. we have a tendency to had to be terribly explicit concerning the color to form associate legitimacy and additionally offer the motorbike its post war attractiveness."
