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Continental GT 250

The Continental GT was styled and marketed as a factory café racer for younger riders, with clip-ons, rearsets and a racing-influenced silhouette.

Royal Enfieldmanufacturer
cafe racercategory
248 ccengine capacity
Air-cooled singleengine

Museum plaque

Why this bike belongs here.

An early example of a manufacturer packaging youth culture and café-racer aesthetics into a production motorcycle.

The Continental GT was styled and marketed as a factory café racer for younger riders, with clip-ons, rearsets and a racing-influenced silhouette.

Why it matters. An early example of a manufacturer packaging youth culture and café-racer aesthetics into a production motorcycle.

Technical identity

The engineering at a glance.

This first expansion records museum-level specifications rather than pretending every year and market used one immutable specification.

EngineAir-cooled single
Capacity248 cc
Production era1965–1967
CategoryCafe Racer
TransmissionAdd by variant/year
Final driveAdd by variant/year

Research starting point

Built to improve, not freeze.

Model-year specifications can vary. The museum keeps the stable historical interpretation here and leaves room to add exact variants, racing derivatives, engine codes and source-specific specifications later.

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