The capacity to see beauty (…in a Royal Enfield Model CO)

Kafka said that. At least, the bit which doesn't include the Royal Enfield Model CO. Understandable really. He (Kafka) offered it as the defining quality of 'youth'.

Shown here, a youth and a Model CO. It seems pretty clear who can see the beauty in what.

Bought in 1947 by my father-in-law BP Neal, then aged about 18, the machine is a demobbed and civilianised CO that looks to be in a highly polished and certainly highly appreciated condition.

"Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty…". Apposite really.