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Royal Enfield is relaunching its women-only racing program, Build. Train. Race., for 2026. Across eight races spanning four MotoAmerica rounds, ten women will build identical Continental GT 650s themselves, race them, and receive professional coaching.
This news genuinely warmed my heart. Building the machine with your own hands, training, and racing it. Women are front and center in every part of it, both the mechanical work and the riding. Having heard the words 'women aren't cut out for bikes' more times than I can count, a step like this really means something to me. I'm sure there are plenty of people who'll feel encouraged by it.
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Enfield going all-in on programs like this for developing women riders is real differentiation from other makers.
Building the bike yourself from scratch — you'd probably get even more out of that than the race itself.
I've heard the name Build.Train.Race before — is this a relaunch of a program they've run before?
I think this program's run before, so "revival" is probably the right way to describe it this time.
Curious what the criteria are for selecting the 10 participants — experienced riders only, or beginners welcome too?
With pro coaching included, it's probably designed so even complete beginners can take part.
4 MotoAmerica rounds across 8 races — that's a pretty serious race schedule.
A program where you build your own Continental GT650 and go all the way to racing it — that's seriously hardcore.
