The Royal Enfield Himalayan is an odd design. The company says that while it wanted to do an adventure tourer, it didn’t want to go where the current segment is. The RE Himalayan, then, has a functional simplicity to it. There’s an almost industrial focus to the design which I find very appealing. And I have to mention here that the motorcycle looks a lot better up close and in the flesh than in the pictures. There are angles from which the Himalayan looks awkward or disproportionate, but by and large, it’s a handsome, spartan motorcycle that looks like a tool or a machine rather than the fancy, plastic-covered gargantua that pass for adventure tourers today.