Hyosung Aquila GV250 vs Royal Enfield Meteor 350

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.

Little over a year ago, I picked up a brand new Royal Enfield Meteor 350. I picked it up just a few days before its official launch. The odometer had barely touched 20kms, and now, a year later, our Meteor 350 long termer has almost touched 10,000kms.

The Royal Enfield Meteor has been my daily rider for almost six months now. I ride it to office. I ride it to the gym. And, I take it out on the weekends with my wife as she is a big fan of that pillion seat. So in short, the Meteor has been playing well in the city. But there was one thing I was itching to do for a long time and that was a lovely long distance ride. So I did it this monsoon.

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