My wife loves mid-century modern stuff and has decked out our apartment accordingly. If it was somewhat larger, the updated Royal Enfield Interceptor with the Cali Green teardrop tank might well take pride of place in the living room. Perhaps beneath a Slim Aarons print depicting a California beach in the 1960s, such is the bike’s steadfast adherence to the era.
It would be the Interceptor (rather than the Continental GT 650 café racer) because the gorgeous metallic Cali Green only adorns the Interceptor’s tank and we both love that colour.
On the other hand, I do like the Conti café racer’s clip-on ’bars, rear-set ’pegs and solo seat cowl. But rather than risk a divorce-threatening argument about which one we would hypothetically settle for, the good news is that all the parts on each model are interchangeable so we could feasibly have both.
But making either of these freshened up 650s mere living room ornaments would be a disservice to motorcycles which stop and go much better than their sub-$12k price tag would suggest.
When launched in 2018, Royal Enfield created a disturbance with its reimagined
