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MASTER CLASS

“There are bits that I like, and bits that I don’t like”

LIKE many of you, I love motorcycle videos taken from the rider’s point of view, especially the ones roaring around the Isle of Man’s 37 miles of roads through countryside and village. Insane? Yes. Insanely fast? Definitely.

There are dozens of these high-speed rides to watch on YouTube, but my favourite of the genre is an early one, from 1983. Honda made a video called

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