royal enfield continental gt 3d model - Royal Enfield Continental GT250 (broken version) by dimosbarbos

Which bike lived in your teenage dreams when you first started riding? Kel Boyce aspired to Enfield's sporting 250, and he didn't manage to grow out of it...

The Continental GT. What can I say? The dream bike of every learner rider of the mid-1960s. Seen as the saviour of an ailing Royal Enfield company from the massed hoards of Japanese and Italian lightweights, the Continental GT was, essentially, a Latinized version of the workaday Crusader.

Latinized? Sure! The bright red fibreglass tank, polychrome-silver frame, grey handlebar grips, hump-backed, two-tone seat, and the natty flyscreen were there to obscure the fact that this was a bastardised son of Old Blighty. The GT bits, as well as the name, could all have originated on an Italian sports motor-scooter.