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    Technically speaking

    May 14, 2019 3 minutes

    column this issue was going to be about the insides of a Montesa 200 engine, which belongs to a relative of mine who was abit good on a trials bike in the Fifties (he’s got the rest of the bike as well but that’s not in too bad a condition compared with the engine). Then, just as I was finely crafting the words, in popped an email from John Dickinson with his column attached. Having seen a photo of it, John also mentioned the

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