Motorcycle specifications Royal-Enfield 440 Scram 2025 Smooth evolution

The destiny of Royal Enfield's Scram (why not call it a Scrambler?) is closely linked to the career of another of the manufacturer's models: the Himalayan. In fact, it's on this technical base that the Scram develops its specific features: smaller front wheel (19 inches), lower seat height for a trail bike that's more suited to the city than to great adventures on the Indian mountain range.

Fun utility?

This RE Scram is a bit of a fearless city bike, and not just because of its engine. However, if we remember old machines like the Honda 125 GN, which was also used for this purpose, this Scram still has a hint of sex appeal and fun. First and foremost, the manufacturer has chosen the graphics and colors of its little machine to make it attractive. In detail, the small headlight fairing or the side plate on the tank give relief to a bike that could have been quite bland.

The 2025 version doesn't change much in this respect, and the bike is still available with spoked wheels or spoked rims, as you prefer. More technical than aesthetic, the change is in the lighting, which is now LED. The speedometer is still analog, with a small LCD screen (in the center) displaying the fuel gauge and gear engaged. Geeks will have to use RE's Tripper, a small, round, remote display which, in addition to the time, offers a simplified guidance function to avoid having to fix the phone to the handlebars.

Engine: +32 cm3, + 1 hp

While the Himalayan gets a new 450 cm3 twin-cylinder engine (for 40 hp), the Scram retains the little single-cylinder engine, which is a little wheezy! Not enough to throw your passenger off when starting off at a red light ... It now measures 443 cm³ and is still air-cooled.

Power is up by one horsepower for 2025, with 25.4 hp at 6,250 rpm and 34 Nm of torque at 4,000 rpm. The bike is of course A2 license-compatible. The gearbox gains an additional ratio for a total of 6. The new gear ratios may give the engine a little more oomph. Royal Enfield is undoubtedly counting on this to dare to call its little utility a "Supermotard" - yes, yes, you read that right.

Chassis-wise, the Scram 440 is a carbon copy of the SCRAM 411. The frame is fitted with a slightly modified rear loop. Suspension consists of a telescopic fork with 190 mm travel at the front and a monoshock with 180 mm travel at the rear. Softness for potholes and the many French speed bumps! The brakes, which must stop the 187 kg of the whole, are made of a 300 mm disc at the front and 240 mm at the rear.

But why? Who's it for?

If you're looking for a motorcycle on a budget of around 5,000 euros, this Scram could be just what you're looking for. Not yet imported into France, the bike will find the sexy Honda GB350S in its path. A machine with the same nostalgic aroma, cute, with modest power (21 hp for the Japanese) and a very small price tag: 4,599 €uros! The Indian model will have to match the Japanese model if it wants to exist....

Vincent Beaucousin - manufacturer's media