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    Let’s go racing!

    Apr 23, 2018 5 minutes

    I have done some stupid things in my time, but this has to be right at the top. And the worst part is – it’s your fault! At the Newark Classic Bike Show in January I was stripping down an old 1971 Honda CL350, one that I’d had for years. I bought it for parts as the engine was seized, the exhaust rotten and the rear half of the bike had got so hot in the desert-like conditions it had been stored in while languishing in the US, was melted. Even at the front, the fork gaiters were completely solid.

    Two gentlemen came up and asked what I was doing with the bike. My initial idea was to get it working, lose a little weight (the bike, not me) and make a trials bike that I wouldn’t be afraid to abuse. Some of my friends have twin-cylinder trail bikes and I’m envious of them, if I’m

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