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    Curing SELLER’S REGRET

    Jul 30, 2022 4 minutes
    Photos by James French

    ou have to believe in luck and good fortune when you ake a risk with an old Brit bike you haven’t seen or tested – some things are just meant to be. I have owned a few Royal Enfield 250 sports singles. My favourite model is the ‘jelly-mould’ Continental from 1963, with its sculptured fuel tank and paired Smiths instruments. It’s a handsome bike by all accounts with lots of chrome, available originally in gold or blaze (a brown-reddish colour). These 250s have the infamous five-speed gearbox which can be made to work if

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