Here’s A Detailed Look At Royal Enfield Hunter 350’s Retro Variant: Image Gallery

The roadster’s base variant up close via images

[UPDATE: Royal Enfield has launched the Hunter 350. Full details in our launch story]

Royal Enfield has revealed the Hunter 350, and as we had reported earlier, it comes in three variants. While we did give you a detailed look at the higher variant called Metro, here’s the base Retro variant up close and what it features via images.

The Hunter 350 Retro will be the most affordable Royal Enfield Bike based on the J-series platform. It will not be available in any international markets and will be sold only in India.

While the Metro and Metro Rebel variants come in a wide range of colour options, the Retro variant will only be available in two single-tone colour schemes: black and silver. 

It gets a simple ‘Royal Enfield’ stickering in red colour on either side of the fuel tank. It also gets a slim bronze/gold pinstripe running across either side of the fuel filler cap.

Unlike the ribbed seat on the Metro variant, the base variant flaunts a more simple-looking unit, however. Even the grab rail on the Retro is a more simple tubular metal unit.

The taillight on the Retro variant skimps on LEDs and makes do with halogen units. The front and rear turn indicators are old-school and rectangular in shape, borrowed from the Himalayan, as opposed to the Metro’s circular units.

In terms of hardware, the Retro variant gets a disc up front and a drum at the rear for braking, paired with single-channel ABS.

Unlike the alloy wheels on the Metro, the base variant rolls on spoke wheels wrapped in slimmer 100/120 tubed rubbers as opposed to the 110/140 tubeless tyres in the higher variant.

The Metro variant flaunts a semi-digital instrument cluster borrowed from the Royal Enfield Scram 411. The Retro, on the other hand, gets a much smaller and more basic-looking semi-digital instrument cluster. It also misses out on the Tripper navigation pod, even as an accessory. 

The switchgear on the Retro is more basic and similar to the one found on the old-gen Classic 350.

Apart from these differences, the engine, frame and suspension are shared by all three variants.

The Hunter 350 is all set to launch today and will go up against the likes of Jawa Forty Two, Honda CB350RS, TVS Ronin, and also the upcoming Triumph-Bajaj 350 bike.