CHENNAI, India -- In the classic 1981 Japanese arcade game Frogger, players move a frog across a busy road, dodging rows of traffic to avoid becoming roadkill. Motorcycle touring in India is very similar -- a risky game of chance in which riders must constantly outmaneuver colorfully decorated buses, overloaded trucks, speeding SUVs and families squeezed onto scooters.
This task is made somewhat more tolerable on the Himalayan 450, a new midsize motorcycle built by the Indian manufacturer Royal Enfield that has been described by the U.S. motorcycling magazine Cycle World as the best-value adventure bike ever made.
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