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TOO COOL FOR SCHOOL

“TRAFFIC is getting worse, public transport is a joke, yet we also boast some of the best riding roads in the country, if not the world,” Benny Selboskar from Smoked Garage in Fortitude Valley, Queensland, says. “So lots of people are going out and getting their licence and joining the motorcycle fraternity.

“We’re seeing more and more people invest the extra money on their first bike and get it looking the way they want, because they know they’re gonna be on it for at least two years. And at the end of the two years, the re-sale value is gonna be pretty good, as

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