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    Buyer beware

    Nov 14, 2017 3 minutes

    This jolly piece is being contrived before the October Stafford classic bike show, so you’ll be reading this after it has all happened. It matters not, the point is it got me thinking about shows, and people, and classic bikes in general.

    I love shows for all kinds of reasons. Firstly, I just like standing staring at bikes, trials, scrambles, road race, road, they’re all interesting in their own way. Secondly, I am a bit of a people watcher and many of the folks who populate shows are every bit as interesting as the mechanical stuff.

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