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MIXED XED ‘‘N’ MATCHLESS
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An AMC Pre-60 single for ‘go’ not ‘show’
MATCHLESS // MAICO // BEST BIKES // BULTACO
PLUS JCM YAMAHA MX
IN THE BEGINNING
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WORKS PREPARED Surely it’s special!
GERAINT’S GENTLE GIANT A matter of development
Regulars 03 In Balance
Do you embrace change or abhor it? Or does it depend on what is changing? A new workshop is always good.
06 News, views and reviews
If it’s happening, going to happen or happened then this is where you’ll find it… and we’re just in time to remind you about Telford.
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You need…
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…you also need…
… the new generation of trials bikes, from when France was at the forefront of the feet-up game.
We say the Yamaha with the evil reputation should be in your shed too.
22 Super Profile
Bultaco and Sammy Miller are synonymous. We went along to check out Sammy’s last works 250 Bultaco, freshly restored.
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52 Dicko’s view
It is a matter of evolution, gentle evolution which interests Mr Dickinson in this issue.
61 ’cross words
It is right to celebrate the past says Mr Berry, but also keep an eye on the future too or there’ll be nowhere for the past to go.
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Dirt Talk
What are you talking about in the CDB world? All sorts of things as it happens, a packed letters page this time.
82 Moto memories
KTM’s first world MX championship came via Russian rider Gennady Moiseev – they rewarded him well.
On the cover When dinosaurs ruled the earth! We check out Dave Godley’s big single, built for ‘go’ not ‘show’. It wears its battle scars with pride.
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What’s your favourite bike…?
It’s a question I ask a lot. Someone then asked it of me, and as we celebrate our 50th issue, I have a think about my off-road icons… all featured in CDB too.
28 From the archive
Memories from the past 49 issues in this unashamed look back at us. Gosh weren’t we young looking in those days?
34 No substitute for cubes
A big Maico was the ultimate tool in enduro of the early Eighties, Welsh star Geraint Jones was master of his craft.
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64 The season round-up
Yes, the last race has been run, the last trial done in our two classic series. Were you competing in 2018? Will you in 2019?
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Single-minded
For long enough, the big non-unit single was the mainstay of British scrambling – the single has its fans in the classic scene too.
Events 54 This sporting world
For 49 issues we’ve embraced off-road motorcycle sport, here’s a flavour of where we’ve been.
62 Feet-up in Kinlochleven
A new event in a traditional trial area, Leven Valley’s twinshock two-day trial was a success.
Technical 44 Rebuilding to ride
Rapid progress has been made on the bits of our Project 90, a lot of them are in where they should be.
48 Dirt Products
Got something of interest to the dirt bike world? Let us know and we’ll tell everyone else… we’re like that you see.
50 Tech Talk
Do you remember how many tech tips we’ve sought out for you? No? Here’s a few of them.
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2019
If your postie got their skates on and you’re reading this copy within minutes of it arriving through your door, there’s just time for you to get to the 2019 Hagon sponsored Classic Dirt Bike Show, which is on this weekend (February 16/17) at the Telford International Centre. The show is easy to find as it’s on the outskirts of Telford and just off the M54. It will be packed full of the best in trials, scrambles/MX and enduro machines from all eras. There’ll be gnarly pre60 stuff rubbing handlebars with glitzy Evo models as each discipline tries to outdo its competitors. Even better, there’ll be enthusiasts like you on hand to talk about what it is which makes their scene and bikes tick. If you’re looking for a vital bit to finish your pre-season prep then it could well be in the trade and autojumble stands. Of course if the bit you want is no longer available, it’s likely someone else has had a similar fruitless search and
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can offer advice on what to do. It’s not just bikes that will be at the show either, there will be multi world trials champion Dougie Lampkin and multi British MX champion John
Banks to listen to as they’re interviewed on stage by Jack Burnicle, and you never know who else will be wandering about catching up with the dirt bike world. It costs £14
on the door, if you’re 15 and under it’s free, and the show opens at 10am on both days. If the autojumble is your thing there’s an early bird ticket for £18 which lets you in at 9am.
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A life lived
Former Bultaco star Bernie Schreiber will be the star turn at the Westmorland Motor Club’s Bultaco Nostalgia Trial, which is raising vital funds for the charity CancerCare. Before that though, and closer to hand, the club has some stage time at Telford this weekend during the Hagonsponsored Classic Dirt Bike Show when Robin Luscombe will conduct the Grand Charity Auction on Saturday, February 16 at 3pm. The auction has loads of
special prizes from a pillion lap of the TT course by multiTT winner Mick Grant, a truck load of memorabilia connected with AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame inductee Schreiber and Bultaco, six spaces at the pre-trial dinner with all of the Bultaco stars, plus two trials bikes being auctioned. Both bikes are a little bit special, one being a Tiger Cub built by John Holmes, the other being the ex-Steve Saunders 250 Bultaco Sherpa. John succumbed to cancer
late last year and in his memory Pete Remington is offering one of his Cubs for auction. The opportunity to acquire a Yrjo Vesterinen-fettled Bultaco is one which no trials or Bulto fan ought to miss. This particular 250 was tested by us at Stafford after it had been fully restored. If you can’t make it to Telford for the auction then proxy bids for the bikes and other lots are being taken on the Bultaco Nostalgia facebook page.
Project IT is back in business Readers with a good memory will recall our Yamaha IT465 enduro project... which had been going well until some technical difficulties halted progress. Well things are sorted and the IT is on again, and in time for Telford show. There will be some rummaging in the autojumble for some missing bits and pieces – in particular the under-seat mud-guard which joins the rear mudguard, plus a throttle tube, the one with the cog. We're also looking for advice on alternatives to those bits in the realm of unobtanium.
The latest one-off publication from the people who bring you Classic Dirt Bike is a special bookazine about Alf Hagon. There can be few people in the motorcycle world who have influenced as many aspects of the sport as Alf Hagon. From his grass and speedway exploits, to his record-breaking successes with a patiently developed JAP v-twin, plus his work with alloy framed MXers and much more besides, this is the story of a man not constrained by conventional thinking. Crammed into 132 pages are features, photographs, reminiscences and thoughts of Alf, from his early days to the here and now. Written with the valuable help of the Hagon family and vetted by Alf himself, this is a snapshot of his incredible life at the cutting edge of motorcycle development. Get your copy from our team by calling 01507 529529.
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A ton of quality at Bonhams auction The sole of the matter
Good news for wearers of Alpine Stars boots comes from Kings 0f Somerset, where master shoe repairer – and MX racer – Al King is offering a repair service to such boots. When we spoke to him Al said: “Thanks to a chance comment by a rider/friend who asked if we could do anything with his worn Alpine Stars, we can now refurbish all types of Alpine Stars – subject to factory inspection – with new soles and buckles and supply cleaning and care products to keep them in good order.” Al did stress the service depends on his team’s inspection of the boots first. “Some boots are beyond help,” he says. The service doesn’t stop there either. If you fancy cutting a dash at the club awards dinner then Kings of Somerset will be adding a range of luxury shoes later in the year. For information, visit www.kingsofsomerset. com or email workshop@ kingsofsomerset.com ...or you can even pick the phone up and call 01460 57321 and see if they can save your footwear.
If you’ve ever attended the Bonhams auction at either of Mortons’ Stafford-based shows and bemoaned the lack of 'proper’ dirt bikes there, then this April’s auction during the Classic MotorCycle Show on April 27/28 may well be for you. On day one of the two day sale, the Sant Hilari Collection will be auctioned without reserve. The collection comprises more than 100 important competition machines covering marques such as: Gilera, Moto Guzzi, Kramer, Husqvarna,
Maico, CZ, Jawa, Suzuki, Yamaha, Honda, KTM, Bultaco, Motobi, Ossa, MAV, SWM, Moto Villa, Beta, Anvian, DKW, Cagiva, Greeves, Tri-BSA, Sachs, Fantic, Cannondale, VOR, Aprilia, Husaberg, Kawasaki, Montesa, Macal, Ducson and Ducati. The vendor amassed this incredible collection of machines over a lifetime spent as both a competitive rider and a works mechanic for several top-flight teams. The collection charts the development of many manufacturers including several prototype examples.
Beamish deadline The organisers of the Beamish Trophy Trial tell us entries for the 47th running of the event on Sunday, September 22 are now open... and as it is always massively over-subscribed it’s best to get in quick. Entry requests should be submitted by March 15, the organisers will then write to entrants confirming whether your entry has been successful and requesting payment by April 26. The regulations can be
opened by visiting: www.beamishtt.com This year online entries are the preferred method. The lunch stop will be at Nenthead and the route has been modified accordingly. The revised route will also take the trial through Alston which has two petrol stations. The only observed section which will be dropped is Studdon Hairpins and compensating off-road sections will be added.
Highlights of the collection include: ■ 1976 Husqvarna 250 CR GP (£2500-£3500) ■ circa 1983 Maico 250 Motocross (£2800 – £3500) ■ circa 1980 Barigo Yamaha TT500G Motocross (£3000-£4000) ■ circa 1979 Bultaco 370 Frontera Mk II Enduro (£2000-£3000) ■ circa 2004 Yamaha WR450F 2-TRAC Enduro (£4000-£6000) ■ 1954/1957 Tri-BSA 498cc Motocross (£6000-£9000)
Scottish cut-off By the time you read this, if you’ve not tipped up your entry fee for the option to ride in the 2019 Pre65 Scottish, then you’re too late. The deadline was February 8, and it doesn’t matter how anguished your cry is, if you’ve missed it then that’s it.
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Montesa legends Nearly 500 trials riders descended on the Sol-iVi hotel in Barcelona in November for a celebration of Montesa and trials prior to the Costa Brava Two Day Trial. Organised by a group of Spanish trials riders from the Sixties – Oriol Puig Bultó, Estanis Soler, Xavi Foj, Pere Mas, Joan Font and Pere Pi – the luncheon was to celebrate the years 1964 (effectively the start of trials in Spain) until 1985 when the original factories were gone. With riders of the calibre of Sammy Miller, Yrjo Vesterinen, Bernie Schreiber, Thierry Michaud, Mick Andrews, Jean Marie Lejeune, Nigel Birket, Steve Saunders and John Lampkin rubbing shoulder with Spanish riders, the day was deemed a success. On hand for us was Charlie Harris, who was instrumental in Montesa’s launch into the trials world and is pictured on the model which formed the basis for the bike he built for the factory.
Join the queue for Aviemore’s Highland fling It is probably too late to try and get an entry for the Inverness DMCC Highland Classic Two day Trial on the Alvie estate near Aviemore on June 8/9 as the entries fill up very quickly once they are open. However, there’s a chance someone might drop out and the waiting list moves up a notch. This year's guest of honour will be Bernie Schreiber who will forsake Bultaco blue for SWM yellow – he was top rider for both factories – as the trial will celebrate the Italian SWM marque. Bernie, so long out of the trials loop, has embraced the sport he was once top of the world at and has lost none of his skill. Still the only American to win a world trials championship, the Californian is also holding a trials school after the event. Go to its Facebook page Highland Classic Two day Trial for information.
On the cam
These days, when even mobile phones are capable of producing excellent films and photographs at almost any event, it seems everyone is taking pics or filming events and whapping them up to the internet. Going back 30 years or more, filming such things as MX wasn’t quite so easy – yes there had been cine cameras and latterly video recorders, but not everyone had them and in the case of cine it was a complicated process to view what had been filmed and often the results were tucked in the attic and rarely seen. So, when Andrew Ascott sent a DVD with film he’d taken at the West Coker round of the Haynes Fourstroke Series in 1990, we were intrigued. By his own admission Andrew is not a professional film maker and the production of the DVD reflects this, but he was there and did film the action and has transferred the results to a format which can be used in this digital age. Andrew began filming such events by accident rather than design and saved them for his own enjoyment. If this slice of MX past appeals to you, maybe you were racing in the series, then call Andrew Ascott on 01308 458712.
The tables turned “What’s your favourite bike of all time?”... it’s a standard question, and as the editor reflects on our first 50 issues of CDB, one he decides to ponder himself after being asked about his own off-rroad icons... Words: Tim Britton Pics: Fiona Watson, Mortons archive, Birger Tommos
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s questions go it’s a pretty innocuous one to ask, after all every ryone y knows what their favourite motorcycle of all time is don’t they? It is a question which has produced some surprising answers when I’ve quizzed owners about their bikes for features and proves just how wide ranging the off-road world is. Whenever the question is posed there is always a moment of panic in whoever is being asked to point the finger and say “that’s my favourite bike of all time…” Answers go from “now you’re asking…” to “what? Just one?” and all points in between. All great fun and harmless... and just because we’re all nosey. So, this was all well and good until the day someone bounced the question back at me and said: “What’s your favourite bike then?” I couldn’t answer… Several times I started to speak then stopped, beads of perspiration appeared on my forehead as thoughts bounced around the inside of my head… well there’s the… but wait a minute, there’s… no, it has to be… and it dawned how difficult a question I’d been asking people. It also dawned how many people had answered the question but tagged on the end “…next
week’s answer might be different…” So having been put on the spot with my own question, thoughts kept mulling over until the only way out of the damnable loop was to write it all down. Similar to it seems every ryone y who has had this question posed to them, we can rarely pinpoint a single machine as our favourite… it is exasperating enough to narrow it down to a top 10. One of the advantages of this occupation is I get to be up close and personal with a lot of motorcycles. Add in the fact I am pretty ‘multicultural’ when it comes to era or discipline or even how many wheels are in use – a minimum of two is good and any more than three my interest wanes a little. So, trials, scrambles/MX and enduro being the three main disciplines gives a vast range of motorcycles to tease the senses with. I was going to say I’m not so struck on shiny bikes, but then along comes someone such as Dave Stewart who produces an immaculate machine – Tiger Cub trials bikes – which perform well and are used in such gentle events as the Pre65 Scottish and remain in showroom condition. As I’m from a trials background it is inevitable that machines from the feet-up world figure highly in my choices as all-time favourite motorcycle and I can actually point a finger at the bike which awakened my interest in the classic side of things… Sammy Miller’s
Below: Some serious development has gone into Vesty’s Bultaco.
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GOV 132. This motorcycle is probably the ultimate expression of ‘doing the best with what you have’, but to be honest it is just a little bit before my time and Miller’s Bultacos are more my era. Once I was introduced to this great world of off-road sport the Bultaco era had arrived, or more correctly the Spanish Armada had been doing well. At my very first event as a spectator my senses were assaulted with all sorts of motorcycles but the one which really leapt out at me and subsequently became a poster on my wall was the then-newly introduced Bultaco Sherpa slimline. Even 47 years on from that day the Sherpa still looks good. Maybe that smart red slimline one piece tank unit was the deciding factor, of course the soon-to-be-introduced laws banning such tanks made the UK bikes have an alloy one piece unit in blue rather than red which were okay but… Once I started looking through the then-current motorcycle press my attention was caught by these ISDT things… as this was circa 1973 the Triumph Adventurer-based machine built at the Californian Triumph facility forced its way into my heart… Outdated, maybe, even supposedly out-classed but oh-so-nearly successful and a great looking machine… But what’s that in the same feature…? The earlier sprung hub TR5…? This set me off on a whole new tack, that of rigid and tele forked machines. In the family photo album was a pic of my uncle on a 500T Norton, which looked great to me. Of course in those days the internet had still to be invented and research involved acquiring a library ticket and seeing what they had in store or on their microfiche. Most of the libraries stocked marque histories such as there were, and along came pics of BSA’s scrambles machines such as the Goldie and the Victor.
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Above: Once the top lad was finished with a team bike, the supported riders got a hold of it. Vic Vaughan was supported by BSA on this ex-Smith machine.
Below: One of the best looking trials bikes ever made, Norton’s 500T was supposedly a stopgap model built using available parts.
It would be easy to fill this feature with ‘lust object’ bikes, but that’s not the purpose of these words. Their purpose is to bring some semblance of order to my lusting after motorcycles. So, with the assistance of my in-house editor I managed to narrow the selection down a bit so I could explain a little as to why these machines have made it to my personal favourites. In part all of our choices are affected by things we see and our background too. I suppose in there could be added our own psyche, but that would be too deep for someone like me to contemplate. So, what I will say is I’m often drawn to technical things and bikes such as Miller’s Ariel, Jeff Smith’s championship BSAs and that sort of thing where there’s a level of modification over standard, some development perhaps with a view to improving things.
Vesty’s Bulto
There had to be at least one Bultaco in my favourite motorcycles list and the selection could have been any one of a number of the models I’ve owned, but I settled for Yrjo Vesterinen’s well developed 250 Sherpa. When we had been speaking to him about his SSDT win on a non-Bultaco he mentioned casually there had been a lot of ideas he had wanted to try in his heyday on the Spanish marque. In part these ideas were trialled with Reg May at Comerfords when the Finn was based there as the factory hit serious problems. But there was still a need to be seen to be riding what Comerfords was selling – when they could get them. However, as ‘Vesty’ started to think about riding in the burgeoning twinshock classis trials he realised there was only one make he could ride, and he set about developing a personal machine to his exacting standards. Eschewing the 340 model he directed his attention to the 250 Sherpa. The first job was to sort the handling out so it could cope with modern sections and follow on from his work at Comerfords. Next the engine tuning. Upping the capacity a little to 280cc gave a decent boost in power without going too daft. From there the logical way to go was to carve off a little weight and if a component could be lightened by having a hole drilled in it, or if a steel part could be replaced by alloy or titanium it was done, and the result was a Bultaco which worked in modern trials and looked like a works-inspired bike should do.
Can-Am Enduro
Sometimes a bike is thrust upon you, one not normally considered in fact. Just such a thing happened with an ex-military 250cc Rotax engined
Above: Project CanAm impressed the editor so much he bought his own. Top: Pretty much the bike which kick-started my interest in classics, Miller’s GOV 132.
Can-Am. After being invited to take part in a vinduro event near Chatton in Northumberland I spouted forth to anyone who would listen about how vintage enduro was the way forward. Anyway, my bluff was called and a budget was given to source, rebuild, use and then give away an enduro bike. The size of the budget precluded anything like a KTM or that sort of thing but the suggestion of a Can-Am by Chris Marsh of the Canned Ham website for all things vintage Can-Am was taken up and the challenge accepted. Little did I know at the time the resultant rebuild and using the Can-Am would bring me to realise how good the bike was for a novice enduro rider such as me. Naturally with a virtually bomb-proof Rotax engine, the basis for the bike was good, and with someone such as twice world MX champion Jeff Smith involved in the model’s development the frame and running
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Yamaha’s TY250 Mono revolutionised trials, ultimate clubman machine but able to mix it with the best.
Below/right: My favourite bike of all time has to be Honda’s XR200R… simply superb at what it does.
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gear was more than adequate. Okay, so suspension travel was definitely mid-70s but at the front there were Marzochhi or Betor forks and once the olive drab colour was changed for a more glitzy scheme, the bike looked alright and went so well after we gave the project bike away that I bought my own.
TY250 Mono Yamaha
Yamaha’s TY250 Mono made such a change to the trials world that very quickly every other manufacturer had to follow suit and twinshocks were over, at least as far as up-to-the-minute trials were concerned. The Mono was probably the last of the old fashioned style of trials bikes which could be used as actual transport and for club trials at the weekend… just. To say ‘of course no one ever did this…’ would bring in such a pile of mail to prove me wrong that I’ll say instead ‘no one I know ever did this…’ That said it made for a reasonably comfortable ride in the last SSDT I did about 30 years ago. Why was the Yamaha so special? Easy to ride, tough, reliable and good looking to boot are just a few of the things which made it stand out. Nor was it expensive, and while the ultimate clubman machine, it could be made to perform at the highest levels of competition. Yamaha had been developing the monoshock concept for some time and its MX production bikes had used such a system since the mid-70s and even Mick Andrews’ works trials bike had sported a cantilever for a season in the Seventies. When the Mono appeared it had a linkage system for the bottom mount which revolutionised the way the suspension worked – bumps, rocks, steps and much more could be floated over almost without thinking and the trials game went up a notch.
Above: Bultaco’s Slimline Sherpa made a great impact on the editor when he was really young. This is a slightly later model than the 1973 version as the poster is too faded.
Honda XR200R
Bill Nilsson’s 7R
This particular AJS 7R is as far from AMC’s concept of the ohc 350 single as it could possibly get. Where the road racing 7R had a good record racing on the Tarmac circuits of the world and the manufacturer had a good reputation in the off-road world, the two aspects tended not to intermingle. This was of little matter to Swedish plumber Bill Nilsson, who decided his BSA Gold Star wasn’t quite cutting the mustard in MX and looked for something better. That Les Archer was doing well on the European MX scene with a converted Manx Norton road racer was not lost on Nilsson, he approached AJS to see if a 7R could be acquired, they were not keen, Nilsson bought one locally and set about making it fit for purpose.
Just in case you didn’t know, the 7R is a 350 and in the Fifties the MX world championship was only for 500s. So, 150cc short of the mark. Nilsson reworked the engine and it came out at a lot closer to 500cc. A BSA scrambles gearbox replaced the AMC one, BSA fork yokes went in at the front as the 7R ones didn’t have handlebar mounts on the top. The rear sub-frame was tweaked up, scrambles rims went on the original hubs, a Gold Star-style petrol tank replaced the larger race unit and that was that. Nilsson used the bike to great effect in the 1957 world championship and came out the first winner. The bike looks just so right it’s a shame AMC didn’t make it.
Below: Bill Nilsson’s radically worked AJS 7R world championship winning MXer almost made the cut as the fave bike of all time.
There are bikes which punch way above their weight, bikes which not only do what it says on the tin but a whole lot more besides. Just such a motorcycle is the Honda XR200R enduro, the pro-link suspension version in particular. Like the 7R, the Honda is an ohc single but of a design 30 years more modern. It is light, responsive, mild mannered and inoffensive. Unlike other bigger, more brutal enduro machines which are, on paper, supposedly better, the Honda is so easy to ride. It is unlike the more powerful bikes which we like to kid ourselves we can ride but never use to their full potential. Enter the XR200R… vinduro is a friendly sport, with lots of pals buddying up and enjoying the day. Like any sporting friendship, generally these mates are of similar attitude and in my case my two regular vinduro buddies – both called Mike – have the same outlook as me. We want to do the best we can on what we’ve got – Mike Ernst from Germany often turns up on a German machine, Mike Robertson from Aberdeenshire has used all sorts of stuff since becoming infected with classics. I was offered the chance to try an XR200R at a vinduro and after the sighting lap even my other half remarked on how I’d gelled with this superb little machine. Able to use the full potential, it rocketed me around the 14 mile lap so fast and so easily that I overdid the job and went the extra mile… 14 of them, and tried to pretend I was 19 again… The body objected, but the bike and brain were willing so the body just had to deal with it. Ruts, rocks, open fields, nadgery in the woods, mud and water were all met head on and overcome. Unlike the rider – who could only whimper after 10 frantic laps – the little Honda never missed a beat, it sipped fuel, it dripped nary a drop of oil and held its handlebars high. For this reason it is my favourite bike of all time… of course next week the answer might be different.
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