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Never Surrender

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Since its purchase in 2015, the scooter’s has had a complete engine rebuild by Mike Phoenix in Manchester. Mike fitted a Mugello 200 kit, new exhaust, race crank, tubeless SIP rims, and whitewall tyres. It was well worth the journey on acold Saturday morning at 5am to get to Mike for 7.30am, says Richard.

He told us: “We had about four cups of tea and Mike smoked about 20 cigs while he went through all the options. In the end I went with everything Mike advised, which turned out to be the right decision. He told me clearly and explained why it wasn’t worth just sticking on a kit without the necessary upgrades of the other

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