Royal Enfield Acquires Harris Performance

The legendary motorcycle maker Royal Enfield, part of the Eicher Group, has just acquired UK based Harris Performance Products Ltd. Harris Performance has had a long standing relationship with Royal Enfield and was responsible for the chassis development of the Royal Enfield Continental GT café racer.

Harris performance was established over forty years ago by brothers Steve and Lester Harris and Stephen Bayford, and is one of the leading experts in designing and manufacturing of specialised high performance motorcycle chassis and components. Under the terms of the deal, Royal Enfield will acquire all assets, employees, trade names, technical know-how and intellectual property of Harris Performance Products Ltd. Alongside successful relationships with Royal Enfield, Harris Performance has been the only manufacturer from the UK to have been officially commissioned by Yamaha and Suzuki to design, develop and manufacture race bikes for Grand Prix and World Superbike.

Speaking about the acquisition, Siddhartha Lal, CEO Royal Enfield said, “Royal Enfield is working on its new generation of products and platforms; to have the Harris Performance team dedicatedly working with us will clearly enhance our engineering and product design capabilities. Their proven expertise, deep insight and understanding of motorcycling and Royal Enfield will be invaluable for us in our journey towards achieving leadership in the global mid-sized motorcycling segment. All of the current staff at Harris Performance will now become employees of Royal Enfield, taking responsibility of performance and development engineering for our new range of motorcycles. They will be part of Royal Enfield’s upcoming UK Tech Centre.”