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Backwards Glance

Back in 1959 my friend, George Mundie, was looking for a bike here in the Shetlands. I recalled from a few years before seeing a very original, late 1930s BSA coming off the steamer from Aberdeen and going to a man I knew. Enquires were made and it was established that he still had the bike. He hadn’t used it for a year or two and would be willing to sell it. So the following weekend we set off for Lunning, 25 miles north of Lerwick, to view the BSA.

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