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McIlwraith

POTTED HISTORY

LET’S see if you can spot the pattern here, people. Here is my motorcycle ownership history, in chronological order, by cylinder count: 1; 2; 2; 2; 1; 2; 1; 1; 2; 2.

What’s yours?

Now, this doesn’t mean that I have never ridden bikes with more than two cylinders. Working on and through the 1980s I managed to ride long distances on a good number of threes, fours and even sixes (but no fives, and no

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