Approaching the end of the line, the Redditch line at least, here's the 1965 Royal Enfield brochure. This was the era of racing legend Geoff Duke's involvement in the racing and marketing effort. Geoff sadly passed away very recently. By this time the range was essentially down to derivatives of just two machines, the Crusader and Interceptor, both very competent machines but beginning to lose their shine against overseas competition.
I ran around on a Turbo Twin that had been given the cafe racer treatment for a while, it was a fine bike - good handling and braking. I even did a three hundred mile run on country roads on it one day, the bike coped a treat but I was in some pain by the end. The mid and late sixties Royal Enfields are bestowed with significantly higher quality cycle parts than their competitors were using, the move to cost cutting cheap tinware never really reached Redditch.
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| 1965 Royal Enfield brochure front cover. |
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| 1965 Royal Enfield brochure page 1. |
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| 1965 Royal Enfield brochure page 2. |
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| 1965 Royal Enfield brochure page 3. |
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| 1965 Royal Enfield brochure page 4. |
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| 1965 Royal Enfield brochure page 5. |
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| 1965 Royal Enfield brochure page 6. |
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| 1965 Royal Enfield brochure page 7. |
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| 1965 Royal Enfield brochure page 8. |
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| 1965 Royal Enfield brochure page 9. |
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| 1965 Royal Enfield brochure page 10. |
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| 1965 Royal Enfield brochure rear cover. |
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| 1965 Royal Enfield price list. |
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