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    DIRT Talk

    Feb 13, 2017 5 minutes

    Blast from the past

    Tim, you probably won’t remember me, but I was always in and out of your post office on Benfieldside Road, I even came in one day to put an advert in your window selling some C15 SS80 bits and you asked me if they were trials stuff (they weren't, they were from my first legal bike after Bantams and Greeves).

    I got my first bike in 1965, from right over the road from your post office, my elder brother bought me it for £2-10 from a man called Harry Arkless, it was a 1948 excelsior 98, high power for an 11-year-old.

    About four years later, your grandad took me and John Wheatley to Crawcrook auctions and we bought a 197 Dot trials and he brought it home for us

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