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Salt Racer

8 Nov 2020

The Royal Enfield Interceptor 650 creates a new record at Speed Week Australia with a top speed of 212.514 km/h

Motorcyclists aspire for exploring new possibilities andpushing boundaries and Royal Enfield endeavours to aid each and every such pursuit. Gaining such amilestone, Mid Life Cycles’ Royal Enfield Interceptor 650 Salt Racer has set the class record at the annualSpeed Week run at Lake Gairdner, South Australia. The Interceptor 650 Twin broke the four-year-oldclass record on each of its runs, leaving the new mark at 132.050 MPH (miles per hour) or 212.514 km/h.The Mid Life Cycles’ Interceptor was entered in Class M-F 650, for 650cc un-streamlined motorcyclesrunning commercial unleaded fuel. The old record of 119.961 MPH was set at Lake Gairdner in 2016.

This highlights the capability of Royal Enfield’s all new650 Twin engine, which excelled in an exciting challengethat demonstrated the capabilities of the platform. Theremarkable record was broken by Charlie Hallam on dayone of Speed Week (Monday 8 March 2021), with his firstrun at 121.782 MPH. He backed that up with a 123.601MPH pass, for a provisional record of 122.691 MPH.

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