Motorcycle icon faces fresh challenge from Harley

FILE PHOTO: An employee checks a tag on a new scooter at a stock yard during a media tour to the newly inaugurated second assembly line of a Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India manufacturing plant at Vithalapur in the western state of Gujarat, India June 29, 2016. REUTERS/Amit Dave/File Photo

New Delhi: Sajneet Sandhu grew up riding on her father’s Royal Enfield around Goa’s palm-fringed roads, taking in endless beaches and rice fields from the back of the iconic Indian motorcycle. Now 43 and inspired by those childhood memories, she has got a bike of her own. But it isn’t like her dad’s.

Rather than a Royal Enfield favoured by her father and several million other riders in India, Sandhu opted for a slick roadster from Britain’s Triumph.